In 1913, the renowned Argentine naturalist Miguel Lillo conceived the idea of ​​a titanic work that would classify all Argentine flora. For more than thirty years, this project that began with him during his lifetime and was then continued by the Institute that bears his name in Tucumán involved the most important botanists in the country and a group of cartoonists specialized in scientific illustration. The result was a large-format work made up of five volumes in seven volumes that began to be published in 1943 and concluded in 1956. According to the press it was “a true technical display, from the double point of view of botanical science and from the arts. national graphics”. This Atlas of Argentine botany, which includes an introductory essay by researcher Carla Lois, recovers more than a hundred of those illustrations and, as in a kind of well-deserved tribute, reconstructs the history of an unprecedented editorial project.

Format: Paperback
Extent: 146 pp
Size: 24,5 x 17,5 cm

Language: Spanish
Date of Publication: Febrero 2022
Publisher: Ampersand
ISBN: 978-987-4161-74-1