Areca Catechu. – Linn. – Blanco. Miq. [Local Name: Nut Palm Tree]

Description

chromolithograph.

Botanical print from ‘Flora de Filipinas’, Gran edición. First Illustrated Edition; 4 volumes in 5 of text, 2 volumes plates “Edicion de Lujo” Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies only; Published by the Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas under the scientific direction of P. Fr. Andres Naves. Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca.
Very few copies of this edition survived the Liberation of Manila at the end of the Second World War. The Flora de Filipinas is the first book of its kind published in the Philippines, a rare monumental Philippine Botany, in which Blanco describes 1,081 plants.