George Engelmann Cacti Prints for Sale

George Engelmann
Cacti

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These striking steel engravings are cut from George Engelmann's chapter on the "Cactaceae of the Boundary," included in William H. Emory's classic Report on the United States-Mexican Boundary Survey, Under theDirection of the Secretary of the Interior, etc., published in Washington, 1857-59. This important survey reported on the people, topography, and biology of the American Southwest. The boundary, as surveyed, has remained intact, with only minor alterations, for the last 150 years. The artist is P. Roetter. The plates are printed on sturdy, very white paper, with some age toning around the periphery.

Size: 8 x 11 inches

Broadly trained in botany and medicine in Germany, George Engelmann (1809-1884) moved to the St. Louis area in 1832, where he founded of the Academy of Science and the Missouri Botanical Garden . Engelmann published numerous botanical papers, including large monographs on yuccas and agaves, hawthorns, dodders, oaks and pines, describing more than 600 species new to science. The specimens forming the basis of his research came from field trips into Arkansas, the Missouri Ozarks, Illinois, the Lake Superior region, the Appalachian Mountains, as well as the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast. Engelmann also was instrumental in arranging for various botanists to accompany more than 30 expeditions to the western United States, and it was the wealth of specimens he accumulated from these trips that made him an expert on western American flora.

jcorwin@classicnatureprints	Name	Price	Condition
ENGL-11	Mamillaria pectinata	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-12	Mamillaria tuberculosa Mamillaria dasyacantha	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-14	Mamillaria macromeris	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-09	Mamillaria meiacantha M. heyderie, var. applanata M. heyderie, var. hemisphaerica M. gummifera	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-12	Mamillaria radiosa	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-28	Echinocactus emoryi	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-36	Cereus viridifloris	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-37	Cereus chloranthus	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-42	Cereus ctenoides	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-45	Cereus longisetus	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-52	Cereus fendleri	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-54	Cereus polycanthus	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-58	Cereus berlandieri	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-59	Cereus procumbens	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-63	Cereus greggii	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-69	Opuntia macrorhiza	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-70	Opuntia emoryi	45.00	Excellent
ENGL-72	Opuntia grahami	45.00	Excellent
The plates below are cut from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the.... Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (USPRR Surveys).
ENGL-19	Opunita biglovii	40.00	Excellent
ENGL-06	Opunitia chlorotica Opuntia procumbens	40.00	Excellent
ENGL-21	Opuntia tessellata	40.00	Excellent
ENGL-20	Opuntia vaginata Opuntia frutescens	40.00	Excellent
ENGL-10	Opuntia vulgaris Opuntia rafinesque	40.00	Excellent
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