The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant

by David J. Mabberley and H. Walter Lack

This is the first scholarly treatise to tell the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, a monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Originally described by Diskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of
the Balkan Peninsula were neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorpe and John Hawkins, with the help of illustrator Ferdinand Bauer,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198548974
• ISBN13: 9780198548973
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 378 Pages