Botanica Magnifica

Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of the World's Most Beautiful and Rare Flowers and Plants

Available to the public for the first time, this large folio features 250 remarkable color photographs of rare or exotic plants and flowers by Hasselblad Laureate Award winner Jonathan Singer. The original elephant-folio edition was limited to just 10 copies, the first of which was recently donated to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and resides in the Cullman Rare Book Room.  Slip-cased hardcover, 356 pages. 12" x 15"

Museum Provenance

Co-authored by W. John Kress, Curator of Botany and a Research Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Marc Hachadourian, Acting Manager of the Nolen Greenhouses for the New York Botanical Garden.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.