The Book of Palms
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After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing the architecture of these majestic trees.
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The Book of Flowers
French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon’s wife Josephine, he was dubbed “the Raphael of flowers,” and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration.
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Great Escapes North America
This revised and updated edition scours the North American continent for the most extraordinary, elegant, and inspiring places to rest your head. From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters, be inspired by the hotels, inns, guesthouses, ranches, wigwams, and more.
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100 Getaways Around the World (A-I)
Even the greyest, dullest day will be immeasurably enlivened by a flick through this compendium of some of the world’s most enticing holiday destinations. Whether you’re planning your next vacation or simply idly dreaming of one, lose yourself in this collection of 100 beautiful locales from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, Lake Garda to Utah.
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Basquiat XXL
Get up close to the bold brushwork and scribbled words of Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most successful artists of his time. This XXL-sized monographgathers Basquiat’s major works in pristine reproduction. Texts by editor Hans Werner Holzwarthand curator and art historian Eleanor Nairneintroduce us to a legend synonymous with 1980s New York.
