Anne Wollstonecraft, an American woman living in Cuba in the early 1800s, produced an exquisite 3-volume set of books of the native Cuban flora. She painted the flowers, she wrote detailed accounts of the plants and how they were used by the Cuban people. The volumes were “lost” for almost 200 years, and finally surfaced in a New York library, and they have now been digitized so you can “leaf” (ahem) through the lovely, vividly colorful illustrations. I would just note that they might not have been lost for so long if a good librarian had been involved in finding them sooner… the historian looking for them didn’t notice that the artist’s name was slightly misspelled in the catalogs he searched. We’re used to that sort of thing. And yes, she was the sister-in-law of THAT Wollstonecraft, Mary. Whose daughter married a guy named Shelley, and wrote a pretty famous book…