Amarant The Flora and Fauna of Atlantis by a Lady Botanist 1981 Putnam Publishing Art Coffee Table Rare botany books
$60.00 $80.00
This is a near fine (almost like new) larger coffee table style hardcover with dust jacket. 1981 Putnam Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Brown hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is still clean and shiny with only very light shelf wear. Larger coffee table style book, quarto book size or 9" x 12" with 127 pages.
Amarant The Flora and Fauna of Atlantis by a Lady Botanist is a beautiful and wonderful book, lavishly illustrated with color plates. In 1681 at the age of 30, Lady Elizabeth Hurnshaw journeyed to the Americas. A a result of misadventures, she found herself on an island called Amarantos which to this day is unmarked on any map and believed to have been the legendary land of Atlantis. She spent 20 years recording the flora and fauna, filling notebooks with beautiful illustrations. Eventually she and her son, the heir to Hurnshaw, were discovered by a sea captain off the coast of Africa and returned to Hurnshaw. However, she and her son disappeared months later under mysterious circumstances, never to be heard from again. Left behind were her diaries and notebooks.
300 years later, the editor of this book, Una Woodruff, an antiquarian artist, found herself at Hurnshaw and discovered the notebooks in the dilapidated library. This book is the result of that find.
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