EditorialCelery, Apium graveolens. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Poulet from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of the three gia...
EditorialA round ebony-framed plaque in gilded pewter, showing the 260 m long front of the Tuileries, Paris, residence of the rulers of France from Louis XV to Napoleon III. Palace is seen from Pont Royal, Pavillion de Flore in foreground. Ebony, pewter (late 1...
EditorialBrooklime or European speedwell, Veronica beccabunga. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin ...
EditorialNutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, Myristica officinalis, Muscadier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: ...
EditorialNutmeg and mace, Myristica moschata, leaf, seed and fruit. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. T...