The Woodbook - See also
 Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
Hardcover, 29 x 44 cm (11.4 x 17.3 in.), 636 pages
$ 200.00
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - One of the most prized natural history books of all time
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 Thornton, Temple of Flora
Loose Leaf collection with 33 Fine Art Prints, Booklet, Box, 42.8 x 53 cm (16.9 x 20.9 in.), 110 pages
$ 150.00
The complete reprint of all color plates from Robert John Thornton's monumental work The Temple of Flora, first published in London in 1799
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 Edward Lear, The Parrots
Loose Leaf Collection with 42 Fine Art Prints, Booklet, Box, 32.8 x 49 cm (12.9 x 19.3 in.), 116 pages
$ 100.00
Completed in 1832 when he was just 20, Edward Lear's 42 hand-colored lithographs still stand as the finest images of the parrot family ever produced, and an unsurpassed monument in the history of scientific illustration
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  Atlas of Anatomy
Hardcover, slipcase, 26.4 x 36.8 cm (10.4 x 14.5 in.), 544 pages
$ 70.00
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
Mapping the human body: Bourgery's monumental and unsurpassed treatise |
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 New! The World of Ornament
Hardcover, slipcase + image database, 25.2 x 38.2 cm (9.9 x 15 in.), 528 pages
$ 70.00
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
History's most beautiful patterns—available to download from a high-resolution image database |
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 The Eiffel Tower
Hardcover, 29.6 x 42 cm (11.7 x 16.5 in.), 160 pages
$ 39.99
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
The iron colossus: the construction of the Eiffel Tower in drawings and photographs |
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 Edvard Koinberg: Herbarium Amoris. Floral Romance
Hardcover, 23.6 x 31 cm (9.3 x 12.2 in.), 280 pages
$ 39.99
"The calyx is the bridal bed... the strands are the sperm tubes, the pistil stylet the mother passage or vagina, the plant ovary the human female ovary, the seed capsules the mature human ovary, and the seed the egg." —Carl Linnaeus
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 New! Maria Sibylla Merian, Insects of Surinam
Hardcover, 25.1 x 34.2 cm (9.9 x 13.5 in.), 192 pages
$ 39.99
A complete reprint of Merian's great 1705 work on the stages of butterfly and insect development
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 Dezallier d'Argenville, Shells
Hardcover, 25.1 x 34.2 cm (9.9 x 13.5 in.), 216 pages
$ 39.99
A sumptuous 18th century French work depicting a connoisseur's collection of rare and beautiful shell species, reprinted from a fine original copy
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 Garden of Eden. 100 Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
Hardcover, 24.8 x 31.6 cm (9.8 x 12.4 in.), 576 pages
$ 29.99
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
Heaven on earth A tribute to the long tradition of botanical illustration |
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The Woodbook
Leistikow, Prof. Dr. Klaus Ulrich / Thüs, Dr. Holger
Hardcover, slipcase, 16.8 x 24.4 cm (6.6 x 9.6 in.), 800 pages $ 39.99 |
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"Zu seinem 25. Verlagsjubiläum hat der international agierende TASCHEN-Verlag nun eine wunderschöne Best-of-Version eines ursprünglich 14-bändigen Klassikers herausgebracht: In wunderbaren Faksimiles versammelt TASCHEN's The Woodbook alle Holztafeln aus dem Werk Amerikanische Hölzer ... Das Buch, das kostengünstiger gar nicht sein könnte, ist eine wahre Fundgrube für alle Baum- und Holz-Liebhaber."
Wood.stock, Wien, Austria
Wood.stock, Wien, Austria
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'The Wood Book' is Now Better (and Cheaper)
Woodworking Magazine, United States, January 26, 2009
Woodworking Magazine, United States, January 26, 2009