Frankincense

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A frankincense branch in leaf and flower, drawn by Walther Otto Müller for Köhler's 1887 guide to medicinal plants, opens to a simple Merry Christmas. Frankincense was one of the three wise men's gifts, a desert resin traded across Arabia for thousands of years and still burned as incense today. For someone who loves a quiet, classic Christmas.

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Inside, it says

MERRY CHRISTMAS

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / FRANKINCENSE / Boswellia sacra / The fragrant resin of a desert tree, and one of the gifts of the three wise men. It has been traded across Arabia for thousands of years and is still burned as incense. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen. / Botanical Series · Christmas & New Year / No. 06/7

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