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The Drawings of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne for his Natural History of the Gourds


Series: DES PLANCHES ET DES MOTS 4
Harry S Paris
454 pages, 258 colour plates.
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
 
Hardcover | 2007 | £160.00 | approx. $260/€180

#171543 | ISBN-13: 9782856536049
For the first time, this book makes available high-resolution reproductions of all the 258 paintings of gourds of the genus Cucurbita, figuring about a hundred cultivars, kept at the Bibliotheque centrale of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, made in the 18th century by Antoine Nicholas Duchesne, of the Royal Garden in Versailles, a forerunner of genetics and evolution.

Language: Bilingual in French and English.
 
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