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Flora mirabilis : how plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty / Catherine Herbert Howell ; foreword by Peter H. Raven.

Title
  1. Flora mirabilis : how plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty / Catherine Herbert Howell ; foreword by Peter H. Raven.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2009.
Author
  1. Howell, Catherine Herbert.

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Additional authors
  1. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  2. National Geographic Society (U.S.)
  3. Raven, Peter H.
Description
  1. 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports.; 26 cm.
Subject
  1. Botany > History
  2. Plant collecting > History
Contents
  1. Foreword / by Peter H. Raven -- Introduction / by Douglas Holland -- Origins : prehistory-1450 -- Discovery : 1450-1650 -- Exploration : 1650-1770 -- Enlightenment : 1770-1840 -- Empire : 1840-1900 -- Science : 1900-present.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Missouri Botanical Garden"--Book jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 244) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain