Henry Carter Hull

Fanciful creatures slither, swim, and soar through this full-color adaptation of a rare 19th-century German portfolio. The colorful images include exotic birds and fishes, dramatic reptiles and amphibians, and scores of ferocious dragons. This new layout of a hard-to-find antique volume presents enlargements of the original illustrations that offer magnified details of stylized feathers, fins, scales, and other fantastic features. The tremendous variety...

"Bask in the abounding beauty of Utah's wild spaces and wildlife with this breathtaking collection of photographs and quotes by Utah writers such as Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and Everett Ruess. With its sweeping valleys and towering mountains, its inviting summers and glittering snowscapes, its hiking trails and world-renowned ski slopes, Utah's soaring heights are, indeed, where life is elevated. Explore these wild spaces through the...

Le terme « herbier » dans son acceptation première désigne un ouvrage traitant des plantes. C'est ce sens qu'il faudra retenir pour l'herbier que nous vous proposons. Nous avons choisi l'herbier de Basilius Besler, médecin, botaniste et éditeur allemand, du XVIe-XVIIe siècle. Besler dirigea la pharmacie Zum Marienbild à Nuremberg de 1589 à 1629, ville où il créa également un jardin botanique et un cabinet de curiosités. En 1597, l'évêque...

Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose's botanical as well as artistic value, this book features a popular subject for art lovers as well as for people who enjoy the beauty and versatility of flowers. Each of the colourful and detailed illustrations is completed with the aid of valuable scientific...

From one of the biggest names in Art Nouveau design comes this splendid visual encyclopedia of superior artistic studies of plants and flowers. Its 120 images were selected from a rare, century-old, four-volume set of botanical illustrations. Cherry blossoms, clematis, crown imperial, and other specimens appear side by side in full-page plates that contrast magnificent color renditions with meticulous black-and-white drawings. A leading designer in...

Audubon's ambitious project to paint all the birds of North America resulted in a work that represents one of the greatest advances in ornithology. Not only did he identify new species, he also depicted birds within their natural habitat and in vivid poses. This impressive collection ranges from the Greater Flamingo and Bald Eagle to the Carolina parakeet. Audubon describes every species in concise texts, drawing attention the peculiarities of each...

Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O'Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh's sunflowers, Monet's water lilies and Matisse's bouquets are, of course, unforgotten. Most of the works contained in Flowers are true masterpieces, which have often marked whole epochs and styles.

La naturaleza es bella y salvaje, pero a la vez muy frágil. Cada vez se hace mas tarde para reaccionar en su cuidado y protección. Cada generación debería comprometerse a entregar a la siguiente un mundo mejor. Este libro es el resultado de kilómetros de caminatas y largas horas de paciente espera, pero sobre todo es el resultado de una profunda pasión, respeto y amor por la naturaleza.

This book provides the reader with a practical and stimulating guide into the wonderful world of plant and flower photography. It does not only cover the technical aspects, but also looks at the psychological and artistic side, with subjects like visual awareness and principles of compostion. In addition to that, it describes the thought processes involved and the steps needed to make meaningful pictures of plants and flowers be it in a greenhouse...

Dancing with Nature is a monograph of gardens and sculpture created by Morgan Dix Wheelock, landscape architect, during his forty-five years of professional practice as a landscape architect. He began his professional career as a three-year apprentice to Japans master architect and landscape architect Masao Kinoshita, at the time a principal of Sasaki Associates under the direction of the American landscape architect Hideo Sasaki. Wheelock's intuitive...