Here's a really nice book cover: Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs, and Steel':
The cover is John Everett's 'Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru"
A more preposterous book cover is this one:
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And in between we find books like:
(Which has an misleading title for a book that's literally about color perception)
The king of nonfiction book covers is indubitably Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach":
Great post! I like how you provided a variety of examples of botanical art instead of just narrowing it down to one type of botanical art. By doing that, it gives a more broad and better understanding of what botanical art actually is.
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