A classic botanical reference with detailed plant descriptions and plates.
This facsimile edition presents earlyDecades of a royal garden catalog, featuring Latin descriptions, updated genera, and illustrated plates. It gathers long-running notes on habit, morphology, and flowering, with careful revisions and historical context for its time.
This book is a dense, field‑level resource that records how plants were seen and described in the Hortus Regius Matritensis. It emphasizes new or revised taxa, iconography, and the practical notes that guided 18th‑century plant study. It also includes rare addenda and corrigenda that illuminate the edition’s development and publication history.
- Latin descriptions paired with plates to aid identification and study
- Habitat notes and flowering months that place plants in historical collections
- Editorial revisions, notes, and context about the evolution of the work
- Historical insight into botanical classification and documentation of the era
Ideal for readers of historical botany and plant taxonomy, and for those curious about how early modern gardens were described and organized.