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1.THE BROMELIADS, JEWELS OF THE TROPICS. PAINTINGS by MARGARET
MEE, TEXT BY LYMAN B. SMITH.
BOOK SIZE: 32cm X 24cm (12.5 x 9.4 inches). HARDCOVER WITH DUSTWRAPPER.
1ST EDITION. PUBLISHED 1969,PRINTED IN THE USA. 50 PAGES OF TEXT + 32 PAGES
OF FULL COLOUR PAINTINGS OF BROMELIADS BY MARGARET MEE PAGES.
2.I Nice BIG hardcover book, "THE BROMELIADS - JEWELS
OF THE TROPICS" by Dr. Lyman B. SMith, with paintings by Margaret Mee.
Awesome 80 page book with tons of information about growing, identifying,
enjoying the Bromeliad family
3.The Bromeliads Jewels of the Tropics Lyman Smith 1969
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Book Title: The Bromeliads Jewels
of the Tropics
Author: Text by Lyman B. Smith and Paintings by Margaret Mee
Year: 1969
By: A.S. Barnes and Co.
Features: Wonderful text filled with information on Bromeliads and over
thirty plates of paintings by Margaret Mee a very sought after Botantical
Artist.
Condition: Excellent with some minor foxing on the inside cover. The text
and plates are virtually free from any blemish. The DJ has some wear, but
still very good. The spine is strong and 100% intact.
4.The Bromeliads, Jewels of the Tropics, Margaret
Mee & Lyman B. Smith,
1969
The Bromeliads, Jewels of the Tropics, Margaret Mee & Lyman B. Smith,
A. S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick and New York; Thomas Yoseloff
Ltd, London, LCCCN 68-27221; ISBN 498-06887-0, 1969.
This book is 12 ? x 9 ? inches with 54 pages of text and 32 plates.
Margaret Mee ついて
Beginnings After a challenging political life in London
42 year old Margaret arrived in Brasil in November 1951 and almost immediately
found a job teaching
art at St Paul's, the British school in Sao Paulo. St Paul's was at the
heart of a patriotic British Community with numerous connections to the
Brasilian elite. While teaching at St.Paul's she made her first journey
to the Amazon forest and in 1958 twenty-five of her paintings were exhibited
in the Sao Paulo house of the Cultura Inglesa an organisation devoted to
the arts and cultural exchange between Britain and Brasil. The Exhibition
opened on Monday May 5th and soon afterwards she was offered work as a
botanical illustrator at the Instituto de Botanica de Sao Paulo.
Margaret lived in a southern suburb of the rapidly growing city
Margaret found herself working on the Bromeliaceae, a group of plants that
with one exception is unique to the Americas. The Bromeliad Family has
a variety of forms from the straggly grey Spanish moss found on trees
and even telephone wires to those with brilliant colours in the rainforests.
Margaret's work was commissioned to illustrate the Flora Brasilica an
extraordinarily ambitious documentary project to catalogue and illustrate
the plants of Brasil. The Flora Brasilica was the brainchild of Carlos
Federico Hoehne and it got off to a good start. Several volumes were
published and can still be found in specialist stores. But by the late
1950's the costs were mounting.
For more go to:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mee
Smith, Lyman Bradford (United States 1904-1997)
BOTANY
Lyman Smith has sometimes been referred to as "the father of bromeliad
studies" for his many contributions to the systematics and natural
history of the family Bromeliaceae. He also worked on the Velloziaceae,
Xyridaceae, and Begoniaceae. Smith spent a good deal of time working in
South America.
