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Unpaginated [9] pp. text, map + 24 color plates, each with facing page of descriptive text and tissue guard. (Elephant folio) 25¼x13½, original green cloth with gilt title, slipcase. First Edition, No. 364 of 1000 copies.

Signed by Mee on the title page. Text in Portuguese and English. Preface by Roberto Burle Marx, introduction by Richard Evans Schultes. A magnificent production of the flower paintings of Margaret Mee, with the paintings reproduced in their full size. Margaret Ursula Mee (1909-1988) left her native England for Brazil shortly after World War II. Her many excursions into the Amazon provided the subjects for her art, as well as the inspiration to advocate for preservation of the rainforest.