Bean Family – Leguminosae Mucuna

This impressive, large folio lithograph is from Edith Holland Norton’s Brazilian Flowers drawn from nature in the years 1880 – 1882 in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Larangeiras, Tijuca, Paqueta, Petropolis, many of the Specimens gathered in Primeval Forests.. The work was published by Coombe Croft in 1893. This is the only edition that was published, and very few copies of the work survived. It is very rare and not listed in Sitwell & Blunt, or Dunthorne.