Orquideas y orquideologia en America Central. 500 anos de historia. 2016. 273 col. figs. 624 p. Paper bd. - 21,5 x 21.5 cm.

In 2009 Carlos Ossenbach published his opus on the history of orchids in Central America. Now this fundamental work becomes available in Spanish to the Spanish reader. The Spanish edition is enriched by a great number of large illustrations, mostly in colour and mostly never pubished before - far exceeding those included in the original edition.Orchid plants sketched by Thaddeus Hanke and plates prepared from the specimens collected by Louis Née during the Malaspina's expedition to the Pacific (1789-1894), the orchid illustrations prepared in the course of Sessé and Macino's Mexican Expedition (1787-1803), portraits of famous and less famous collectors and travellers, engravings and paintings of early Central American landscapes, are alone worthy the price of tis beautiful book. - Political history of Central America,biodiversity, phytogeography. The text is organized chronologically into four parts and eleven chapters, moving from prehispanic times and running through the second half of the 20th century.