Botany.- Mee (Margaret) Flowers of the Brazilian Forests, number 38 of 100 specially bound copies with an original watercolour by the author, signed by the author on colophon, original watercolour of a Tibouchina (c.330 x 240mm.), signed and numbered by Mee, tipped-in before title with tissue guard, 32 colour lithograph plates by the author (including frontispiece) with tissue guards, pictorial endpapers, original full vellum, gilt, spine a little sunned, t.e.g., original cloth slip case, slightly scuffed, folio, The Tyron Gallery, 1968.

⁂ Mee was an English botanical artist and conservationist who spent more than thirty years exploring the Amazon, collecting, preserving and illustrating the flora which she encountered. In his Introduction to this work, Roberto Burle Marx - internationally renowned landscape architect and one of the first ecologists to call for the conservation of the Brazilian rainforests - recalls how Mee, on expeditions into the forest, possessed such keen instinct and observation that she would surprise the party by consistently finding the rarest species. Indeed, she discovered and recorded several species new to science, some of which are presented here for the first time. Foreword by Sir George Taylor, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew from 1956-1971. Produced under the patronage of HRH. The Duke of Edinburgh.