中文简介：

1817年至1820年，德国植物学家卡尔•冯•马修斯（Carl von Martius）在亚马逊河流域进行了一次穿越巴西和秘鲁的史诗般的旅行，之后他编纂了一份所有已知棕榈树属的目录。本书再现了这部百科全书式的著作，它是19世纪植物学的一颗明珠，因其详细的分类、地图、彩色景观和图表而闻名。

天堂之树

令人难以置信的热带棕榈树插图

1868年12月15日，慕尼黑大学植物学教授兼皇家植物园主任卡尔·弗里德里希·菲利普·冯·马修斯（Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius，1794-1868）被用新鲜的棕榈叶覆盖的棺材抬进了坟墓。这些叶子是指他开创性的《棕榈树自然史》：一部在1823年至1853年间出版的三卷本著作。

这部百科全书式的宝库有240幅精美的彩色石版画插图，是根据冯·马修斯在巴西和秘鲁的探险活动绘制的。从1817年到1820年，他穿越了2250公里（1400英里）的亚马逊盆地，与动物学家约翰·巴普蒂斯·冯·斯皮克斯（Johann Baptist von Spix）一起调查自然历史和土著部落。

马修斯编撰了一本无与伦比的棕榈科所有已知属的目录，概述了棕榈的现代分类，描述了巴西的所有棕榈树，并绘制了**批棕榈生物地理学地图。冯·马修斯的对开本的不同寻常之处在于它包含了横截面图，传达了这些强大的树木的结构，这是中欧人很难准确想象的。同样引人注目的是展示各种棕榈树的彩色风景画，棕榈树通常以简单而优雅的姿态矗立其中。

作者

H.沃尔特·拉克（H. Walter Lack）是柏林自由大学的教授，也是德国柏林植物园和植物博物馆的前馆长。作为植物学历史方面的资深专家，他的研究重点是从文化历史角度研究有用和观赏植物的全球转移。他在TASCHEN的作品包括《伊甸园》、《棕榈书和雷杜德》、《花之书》。

马修斯：棕榈书【40周年纪念版】

H.沃尔特·拉克

精装，15.6 x 21.7厘米，1.34公斤，512页

ISBN 978-3-8365-8781-5

语言版本：英语、法语、德语

英文简介：

After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martius compiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detailed classifications, maps, color landscapes and diagrams.

Trees of paradise

Incredible illustrations of tropical palm trees

On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. The fronds were a reference to his groundbreaking Natural History of Palms: a work in three volumes, published between 1823 and 1853.

This encyclopedic treasury of 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations was based on von Martius's expeditions through Brazil and Peru. From 1817 to 1820, he traveled over 2,250 km (1,400 miles) through the Amazon basin to investigate natural history and native tribes with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix.

The result was an unrivaled catalogue of all known genera of the palm family, outlining the modern classification of palms, describing all the palms of Brazil, and producing the first maps of palm biogeography. Von Martius's folio is unusual in its inclusion of cross-sectioned diagrams, conveying the architecture of these mighty trees, which central Europeans would have found hard to imagine accurately. Equally remarkable are the color landscapes showing various palms—often standing alone in simple and elegant beauty.

The author

H. Walter Lack is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and former director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN's Garden of Eden, The Book of Palms and Redouté. The Book of Flowers.

Martius. The Book of Palms. 40th Ed.

H. Walter Lack

Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.34 kg, 512 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-8781-5

Multilingual Edition: English, French, German