Hibiscus Vidalianus: – =Hibiscus Grewiæfolius? – Hassk. – Miq. [Local Name: Gumamela]

Description

original-colour chromolithograph. EXTREMELY RARE. Beautiful double-page botanical illustration of flower from the Dillenia tree, native to the Philippines from the deluxe edition of the “Flora de Filipinas”; Very few copies of this edition survived the Liberation of Manila at the end of the Second World War. The Flora de Filipinas is the first locally published book of its kind, a rare monumental compilation on Philippine Botany, in which Blanco describes 1,081 plants. Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778-1845) was a Spanish botanist and Augustinian friar. His publication Flora de Filipinas’ was the second comprehensive study on flora in the Philippines, after the work produced by Jesuit friar Georg Joseph Kamel.