Martius, Book of Palms
About the editor:Petra Lamers-Schützestudied art history, archaeology and Romance languages and literatures in Mainz and Rome, gaining her doctorate in 1991. She has worked for TASCHEN since 1998, writing and editing numerous art titles, and overseeing the "Art" and "Classic" series.About the author:Prof. Dr. H. Walter Lackis Director at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem and Professor at the Free University of Berlin. He has publishedThe Flora Graeca Story, Oxford 1998,A Garden of Eternity, Berne 2000, in 2001 TASCHEN'sGarden Edenand most recentlyFlorilegium Imperiale, Munich 2006.