Gentle conquest
Subtitle: the botanical discovery of North America with illustrations from the Library of Congress
By: James L. Reveal.
Series: Library of Congress classics
Publisher: Starwood Pub.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Library of Congress -- Catalogs; Botany -- North America -- History; Botany -- North America -- Pictorial works -- Catalogs; Botanical illustration -- North America -- Catalogs
Description: "A survey of the Library of Congress' collection of botanical texts written from the 16th to the late 19th centuries, with color reproductions of paintings depicting particular plants or illustrating attitudes toward plants."-- Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 158) and index.