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# I don't know why, but pineapples are trying to escape from the pages of one of the greatest botanical books of the eighteenth century
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ne-znaiu-pochemu-no-ananasy-pytaiutsia-sbezhat-so-stranits-odnoi-iz-velichaishikh-botanicheskikh-knig-xviii-veka/
- Published: 2025-05-17T06:04:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:07.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Books, Science, Nature, Humour

The hand-coloured botanical atlas Plantae Selectae by Christoph Jacob Trew, 1771\. The engravings were made after drawings by the outstanding botanical draughtsman Georg Dionysius Ehret

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