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the first flora of French Guiana, profusely illustrated with excellent plates
AUBLET, F.
Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objects intéressans, relatifs à la Culture & au Commerce de la Guiane Françoise ...
Londres/ Paris, P.F. Didot jeune, 1775. 4 volumes (2 text volumes & 2 volumes of plates). 4to (250 x 194mm). pp. (4), 32, 1-621; (3), 622-976, 52, ...
EUR 17,000
the first flora of French Guiana, profusely illustrated with excellent plates
AUBLET, F.
Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objects intéressans, relatifs à la Culture & au Commerce de la Guiane Françoise ...
Londres/ Paris, P.F. Didot jeune, 1775. 4 volumes (2 text volumes & 2 volumes of plates). 4to (250 x 194mm). pp. (4), 32, 1-621; (3), 622-976, 52, ...
EUR 15,500
BERTOLONI, A.
Amoenitates Italicae sistentes opuscula ad rem herbariam et zoologiam Italiae spectantia.
Bononiae, typis Annesii de Nobilibus, 1819. 4to (262 x 205mm). pp. (6), 472, with 6 engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides.
EUR 1,300
A magnificent work on the flora of the Dutch East Indies
BLUME, C.L.
Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium ... adjutore J.B. Fischer.
Bruxellis, J. Frank, 1828 (-1851). 10 parts, preserved in 4 folding boxes. Folio (448 x 285mm). With 1 frontispiece and 238 lithographed plates of ...
EUR 14,000
one of the most splendid narratives in the literature of African exploration
BRUCE, J.
Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie, entrepris pour découvrir les sources du Nil. Pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773. Traduit de l'Anglais, par M. Castera.
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1790-1791. 5 volumes of text & 1 atlas. 4to. pp. lxxxiii, 620; 784; 858; 752;328, clxiii, with 7 (4 large folding) engraved ...
EUR 3,000
first edition of the first illustrated flora of Ceylon
BURMAN, J.
Thesaurus Zeylanicus exhibens Plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia Iconibus illustrata, ac descripta.
Amstelaedami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, & Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 4to (265 x 220 mm). pp. (16),235, (1), (14), (2), 33, (1), with an engraved p...
EUR 4,800
rare and important pre-Linnaean flora, describing the plants of Constantinople and the Orient
BUXBAUM, J.C.
Plantarum minus cognitarum Centuria I (-III) complectens Plantas circa Byzantium & in Oriente observatas.
Petropoli, ex Typographia Academiae, 1728-1729. 3 parts (bound in 1 volume). 4to (255 x 210mm). (I): pp. (12), 48, with 65 engraved plates; (II): p...
EUR 3,000
CAMISOLA, G.
Flora Astese secondo il sistema sessuale di Linneo con cenni sulla virtu'di molte piante indigene impiegate in medicina non tanto sull' Astese che su altre provincie del Piemonte nascenti redatta ad uso del popolo.
Asti, dalla Tipografia dei Fratelli Paglieri, 1854. 8vo (209 x 130 mm). pp. 488. Contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spine.
EUR 800
Stafleu lists only one complete copy in the United States
CIRILLO, D.
Plantarum Rariorum Regni Neapolitani Fasciculus Primus.
Neapoli 1788. Folio (375 x 245mm). pp. xxxix, (i), with woodcut vignette on title and 12 fine handcoloured engraved plates drawn by the author. Rec...
EUR 3,900
COLLA, L.A.
Icones Plantarum Rariorum Herbarii Pedemontani.
(Turin, ex Typis regiis, 1835-1837). 3 parts. 4to (285 x 235mm). With 98 fine lithographed plates by Tecophila Colla. Publisher's original printed ...
EUR 1,500
The impressive 'Flora Londinensis' is much more comprehensive in scope than its title suggests, for it embraces most of the English flora
CURTIS, W.
Flora Londinensis: containing a history of the Plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size.
A new edition, enlarged by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker. London, Henry G. Bohn, [1817-]1835. 5 volumes. Large-folio (481 x 290mm). With...
EUR 15,000
illustrated by the best artists of the period. 92 of the illustrations are after P.-J. Redouté, 61 after his younger brother H.-J. Redouté
DESFONTAINES, R.
Flora Atlantica, sive historia plantarum, quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt.
Parisiis, Blanchon typis C. Panckoucke, An VIII (1799-1800). 4 volumes (2 text vols and 2 atlasses). Large-4to (300 x 215mm). pp. (6), xx, 444; (4)...
EUR 7,500
A beautiful uniformly bound copy of the only major Prussian flora
DIETRICH, A.
Flora Regni Borussici. Flora des Königreichs Preussen oder Abbildungen und Beschreibung der in Preussen wildwachsenden Pflanzen.
Berlin, L. Oehmigke, 1833-1844. 12 volumes. Royal-8vo (255 x 165mm). With 864 fine handcoloured lithographed plates and descriptive text. Contempor...
EUR 18,500
Nissen in his publication 'Die botanische Buchillustration' speaks highly of him 'seine Tafeln... verdienen volles Lob'.
DREVES, J.F. & HAYNE, F.G.
Choix de Plantes d'Europe, décrites et dessinées d'après nature.
Leipzig, Voss et Compagnie, 1802. 5 volumes. 4to (295 x 230mm). pp. xii, 40; xii, 44; xii, 44; xii,40; x, 38, with 125 fine hand-coloured engraved ...
EUR 4,200
about the colony of Surinam, about diseases of that area and about its plants
FERMIN, P.
Histoire Naturelle de la Hollande Equinoxiale: ou description des animaux, plantes, fruits, et autres curiosite's naturelles, qui se trouvent dans la colonie de Surinam; avecleurs noms différents, tant François que Latins, Hollandois, Indiens & Nègre-Anglois.
Amsterdam, M. Magerus, 1765. 8vo (200 x 122mm). pp. xii, 239, (3), with engraved frontispiece and engraved title-vignette. Contemporary calf, gilt ...
EUR 1,500
700 new species are described
FORSSKAL, P. & NIEBUHR, C.
Flora AEgyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas AEgyptum inferiorum et Arabiam felicem.
Hauniae, ex Offina Mölleri, 1775. 4to (255 x 205mm). pp. 32, cxxvi, (2), 219, (1), with hand-coloured engraved map of Yemen by J. Haas after Niebu...
EUR 5,800
the first major botanical work on Japan after the opening of Japan in 1854
FRANCHET, A. & SAVATIER, L.
Enumeratio Plantarum in Japonia sponte crescentium hucusque rite cognitarum adjectis descriptionibus specierum pro regione novarum ...
Paris, F. Savy, 1875-1879. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. (4), xiv, (2), 485, (3); pp. (4), 789, (3). Contemporary green half morocco, gil...
EUR 1,800
a work on the value of American (primarily South American) cultivated plants
GILII, F.L. & XUAREZ, G.
Osservazioni fitologiche sopra alcune piante esotiche introdotte in Roma fatte nell'Anno 1788, 1789, 1790.
Roma, Stamperia di Arcangelo/ Stamperia Giunchiana, 1789-1792. 3 volumes, bound in one. 4to (245 x 180mm). pp. 64; (2), viii, 99, (1, blank); (4), ...
EUR 9,500
The very rare Large Paper issue with coloured plates of this early work on the flora of Senegal and Gambia
GUILLEMIN, J.A., PERROTTET, G.S. & RICHARD, A.
Florae Senegambiae tentamen, seu historia plantarum in diversis Senegambiae regionibus a peregrinatoribus Perrottet et Lepreur detectarum... Tomes primus (all published).
Paris, Treuttel and Wurz, 1830-1832. Folio (370 x 285mm). pp. xi, 316, (6), with 72 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf, spine...
EUR 18,000
HALLER, A. DE.
Enumeratio Plantarum horti regii et agri Gottingensis aucta et emendata.
Gottingae, A. Vandenhoeck, 1753. 8vo (190 x 125mm). pp. lxxx, 424, (18), with engraved title-vignette showing the botanical garden. Contemporary ha...
EUR 700
It was produced by Count Hoffmannsegg, contemporary of Redouté, whose work it rivals
HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK.
Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.
Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820 (-1840). Folio (485 x 335mm, 2 text vols & 525 x 355mm, atlas). 22 parts bound in 3 vo...
EUR 7,500
HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK.
Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.
Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820. Vol. I (Atlas). Folio (520 x 345mm). 30 stipple engraved plates, printed in colours a...
EUR 850
HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK.
Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.
Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820. Vol. I (Atlas). Folio (540 x 360mm). With printed floral wrapper to the 14th part and...
EUR 1,000
A collection of plates of this rare and beautifully produced work
HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK.
Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.
Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820 (-1840). Folio (535 x 3605mm). 185 stipple engraved plates printed in colours and fini...
EUR 4,000
The original drawings for the present work were done by native artists
HOOKER, J.D.
Illustrations of Himalayan plants.
London, L. Reeve, 1855. Folio (508 x 380mm). With 1 pictorial handcoloured lithographed title and 24 handcoloured lithographed plates, each with an...
EUR 19,000
A beautifully bound copy of this rare work on the flora of Java
HORSFIELD, T. & J.J. BENNETTT & R. BROWN.
Plantae Javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibusque illustratae, quas in insula Java, annis 1802-1818, legit et investigavit Thomas Horsfield, M.D. e siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum elaboravit Joannes J. Bennett; observationes structuram et affinitates praesertim respicientes passim adjecit Robertus Brown.
London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852. Folio (365 x 265mm). pp. (2), viii, xvi, (2), 258, (2), with an engraved folded map and 50 (some double-page) engrav...
EUR 15,000
a monument of the grand Austrian botanical era which royal patronage made possible
JACQUIN, N.J.
Florae Austriacae, sive plantarum selectarum in Austriae Archiducatu sponte crescentium, icones ad vivum coloratae, et descriptionibus, ac synonymis illustratae.
Viennae, L.J. Kaliwoda (& J.M. Gerold), 1773-1778. 5 volumes. Folio (470 x 285mm). With 5 large handcoloured engraved title-vignettes (views) and 5...
EUR 48,000
un des livres les plus precieux pour la Flore d'Orient
JAUBERT, H.F. & SPACH, E.
Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium.
Paris, Roret, 1842-1857. 5 volumes. Large-4to (350 x 260mm). With 500 engraved plates. Contemporaryhalf calf, spines with 2 black gilt lettered lab...
EUR 7,500
French artists such as Jaume St. Hilaire, Bessa, Turpin and Redouté rose almost immediately to world pre-eminence
JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H.
La Flore et la Pomone Françaises, ou histoire et figure en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1828 (-1835). 4 volumes. Royal-8vo (260 x 170mm). With 540 (of 544) fine engraved plates printed in colours with handfinishin...
EUR 5,800
The rare 4to issue printed on 'Velin'.
JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H.
La Flore et la Pomone Françaises, ou histoire et figure en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1828-1833 (-1835). 5 volumes. 4to (270 x 210mm). With 544 fine engraved plates by the author, printed in colours with hand-fi...
EUR 6,500
profusely illustrated flora of France
JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H.
Plantes de la France, décrites et peintes d'après nature.
Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1819-22. 10 volumes. Royal-8vo (257 x 200mm). With 10 lithographed portraits of botanists and 1000 fine stipple engraved plat...
EUR 14,000
The drawings? are also admirable, and from a botanical point of view beyond praise
JORDAN, A. & J. FOURREAU.
Icones ad floram Europae novo fundamento instaurandam spectantes.
Paris, Savy, 1866-1903. 3 volumes. Folio (400 x 305mm). With 501 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary uniform half calf, spines in 5 ...
EUR 15,000
One of the rarest and most splendid publications on South American botany
KARSTEN, H.
Florae Columbiae terrarumque adiacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecim annorum observata delineavit et descripsit.
Berolini, apud Ferdinandi Duemmleri successores, 1858-1869. 2 volumes. Folio (500 x 350 mm.). pp. (6), 200, (2, index); pp. (2), 188, (2, index) wi...
EUR 40,000
the most beautiful flora of the Netherlands
KOPS, J.
Flora Batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp en zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops.
Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem, s'Gravenhage, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, and others, (1800)-1920. Volumes 1-25 (of 28) & 1 index volume. 4to (295 x 240mm). Wit...
EUR 18,500
LABILLARDIERE, J.J. DE.
Icones Plantarum Syriae Rariorum, descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae. Decas Prima & Secunda.
Parisiis, impensis auctoris, 1791. part 1 & 2 (of 5). 4to. (I) pp. 22, with 10 engraved plates; (II) pp. 18, with 10 engraved plates. Contemporary ...
EUR 700
scarce work portraying the flora of Greenland
LANGE, J.
Icones florae Groenlandicae, Tabulae ex opere 'Icones florae Danicae' inscripto selectae.
Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1883. 3 atlas volumes and 1 index volume. Folio (392 x 255mm). pp. 11, with 336 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates....
EUR 12,000
the flora of southern Indochina and Vietnam is described
LOUREIRO, J. DE.
Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quirus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque variis. Omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale Linnaeanum. Labore, ac studio Joannis de Loureiro.
Ulyssipone, typis et expensis Academicis, 1790. 2 volumes. 4to (257 x 195mm). pp. (2), xx, 353; (4), 357-744, (2). Contemporary calf, gilt ornament...
EUR 1,500
It is the first and only major flora published of Sardinia and adjacent islands
MORIS, G.G.
Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum.
Taurini, ex Regio Typographeo, 1837-1859. 3 volumes. 4to (270 x 208mm). pp. xii, 606; 562, (2); 564, with 114 engraved plates after drawings by M. ...
EUR 8,200
MORIS, J. & NOTARIS, DE. J.
Florula Caprariae sive enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem Latius excultarum.
Torino, ex Typographia Regia, (1839). 4to (310 x 235mm). pp. 242, with 6 engraved plates. Later wrappers.
EUR 800
PETERS, W.C.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl S.M. des Königs Friederich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Band VI: BOTANIK.
Berlin, Reimer, (1861-) 1862-1864. 2 parts (bound in 1). 4to. pp. xxii, iv, 584, with 61 lithographed plates. Recent half cloth.
EUR 700
A very unusual long botanical scroll, showing 62 different species, each depiction of a plant
PLANTS OF WESTERN JAPAN.
(Chûshoto okonomi no bunezu). Japanese exceptionally long horizontal painted scroll (11.5 meters by 26 cm.) showing 62 species of plants of Western Japan.
End 18th or beginning 19th century. Colour painted on mulberry paper, with Japanese calligraphy, mounted on a wooden roller, endpaper decorated wit...
EUR 28,000
POLLINI, C.
Flora Veronensis quam in prodromum florae Italiae Septentrionalis exhibit.
Veronae, Typis et expensis Soc. Typogr., 1822-1824. 3 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145mm). (I) pp. xxxv, 535, with 2 engraved folded plates; (II) pp. 754, w...
EUR 1,500
PUCCINELLO, B.
Synopsis Plantarum in agro Lucensi sponte nascentium.
Lucae, typis Bertinianis, 1841-1848. 2 parts bound in one. Royal-8vo (210 x 135 mm). pp. 531, xxxxix, with 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary gre...
EUR 1,100
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Deutschlands Flora mit höchst naturgetreuen, charakteristischen Abbildungen aller ihrer Pflanzen=Arten in natürlicher Grösse und mit Analysen auf Kupfertafeln, als Beleg für die Flora Germanica excursoria und zur Aufnahme und Verbreitung der neuesten Entdeckungen innerhalb Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Länder: ... (Band II:) FAMILIE DER KREUZBLUETHLER ODER VIERMAECHTIGEN: CRUCIFERA S. TETRADYNAMAE CUM RESEDEIS.
Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1837-1838. 4to. pp. iv, 121, (1), with 102 partly handcoloured engraved plates. Unbound in contemporary blind half cloth po...
EUR 250
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Icones florae Germanicae et Helveticae, simul Pedemontanae ... 2. Auflage.
Band XI. Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1849. 4to. pp. (4), 32, with 100 engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth, spine with gilt lettering.
EUR 250
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Icones florae Germanicae et Helveticae, simul Pedemontanae ... Deutschlands Flora mit höchst naturgetreuen, characteristischen Abbildungen ... 2. Auflage.
Band XII. Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1850. 4to. Atlas with 100 handcoloured engraved plates. Original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth.
EUR 300
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Icones florae Germanicae et Helveticae, simul Pedemontanae ... Deutschlands Flora mit höchst naturgetreuen, characteristischen Abbildungen ... 2. Auflage.
Band XII. Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1850. 4to. Atlas with 100 handcoloured engraved plates. Original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth.
EUR 300
The rare coloured issue of this extensive and important floristic work
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Iconographia Botanica seu Plantae criticae. Icones Plantarum Rariorum et minus rite cognitarum, indigenarum exoticarumque... / Kupfersammlung kritischer Gewächse oder Abbildungen seltener und weniger genau bekannter Gewächse des In- und Auslandes, als Kupfersammlung und Supplement, vorzüglich zu den Werken von Willdenow, Schkuhr, Persoon, Römer und Schultes, gezeichnet und nebst kurzer Erläuterung herausgegeben.
Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1823-1832. 10 volumes. 4to (242 x 190mm). With 1000 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blue half cloth, marbl...
EUR 15,000
REICHENBACH, L.
Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae simul Pedemontanae, ... Volumen V-VI.
Lipsiae, F. Hofmeister, 1841-1844. 2 volumes (bound in 1). 4to. pp. (4), 1-38; (4), 39-84, with 227engraved plates (numbered 129-198, 198B, 199-230...
EUR 450
REICHENBACH, L.
Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae simul Pedemontanae, ... Volumen XI-XII.
Lipsiae, F. Hofmeister, 1849-1850. 2 volumes (bound in 1). 4to. pp. (4), 32; (4), 34, with 211 engraved plates (numbered 521-620; 621-731). Contemp...
EUR 450
REICHENBACH, L.
Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae simul Pedemontanae, ... Volumen XXI.
Lipsiae, F. Hofmeister, 1867. 4to. pp. (4), 108, with 210 engraved plates (numbered 1842-2051). Contemporary half calf, richly gilt ornamented spin...
EUR 500
Barlett also speaks with appreciation of the beauty of the illustrations
RENAULME, P. DE.
Specimen historiae plantarum. Plantae typis aeneis expressae.
Paris, Hadrianus Beys, 1611. 4to (120 x 176mm). pp. (6), 154, 47, (1), with 25 full page engraved plates. 18th century half vellum, marbled sides ...
EUR 2,500
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Engraved portrait of Georg Everhard Rumphius. Amsterdam 1741. 387 x 245mm.
The engraving has been mounted on old paper and on the verso is written a text in English by an oldhand about the importance of this famous botanis...
EUR 850
the first great survey of the flora of the East-Indies
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas complectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres, & aquaticas, quae in Amboina et adjacentibus reperiuntur insulis ... nunc primum in lucem edita ... J. Burmanni/ Het Amboinsch Kruidboek, dat is beschryving van de meest bekende Boomen, Heesters, Kruiden, Land- en Water-Planten die men in Amboina, en de omleggende Eylanden vind ... nagezien en uitgegeeven door J. Burmannus.
Amsterdam, M. Uytwerf/, F. Changuion, J. Catulle, Uytwerf, 1741-1755. 6 volumes (bound in 4). Folio(390 x 255mm). With an engraved portrait of Rump...
EUR 28,000
He intensively surveyed the flora and fauna of Brazil from Jequitinhonha to Rio de la Plata for six years
SAINT-HILAIRE, A.F. DE.
Flora Brasiliae Meridionalis.
Paris, A. Belin, 1824-1833. 24 parts. Large 4to (365 x 280mm). With 193 engraved plates. Publishers printed wrappers, uncut.
EUR 15,000
only edition of this rare flora and florilegium, depicting the most beautiful native and exotic plants cultivated in Italy
SAVI, G.
Flora italiana ossia raccolta delle piante più belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia..
Pisa, Niccolo Capurro, 1818-1824. 3 volumes, bound in one. Folio (440 x 310 mm). pp (8), iv, 114, (2, index); (2), 90, (2, index); (2), 86, (2, ind...
EUR 40,000
SCHRANK, F. VON PAULA (VON).
Baiersche Flora.
Muenchen, J.B. Strobl, 1789. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. (2), 753; 670, (34), with 1 engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved title-vignettes. Contemporary boa...
EUR 550
SEBASTIANI, A. & MAURI, E.
Florae Romanae prodromus exhibens centurias xii plantarum circa Romam et in Cisapenninis pontificiae ditionis provinciis sponte nascentium sexuali systemate digestas.
Romae, apud Vinc. Poggioli R.C.A. Typographum, 1818. 8vo (210 x 135mm). pp. xv, (1), 351 with 10 folded engraved plates. Contemporary red half calf...
EUR 850
SUTER, J.R.
Flora Helvetica exhibens plantas Helvetiae Phanerogamas/ Helvetiens Flora enthaltend die phanerogamischen Gewächse Helvetiens.
Vermehrt herausgegeben von J. Hegetschweiler. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1822. 2 volumes. Small-8vo. pp. cxxii, 408; (4), 504. Contemporary cal...
EUR 550
SUTER, J.R.
Flora Helvetica exhibens plantas Helvetiae Phanerogamas/ Helvetiens Flora enthaltend die phanerogamischen Gewächse Helvetiens.
Vermehrt herausgegeben von J. Hegetschweiler. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1822. 2 volumes. Small-8vo. pp. cxxii, 408; (4), 504. Contemporary sti...
EUR 500
THUNBERG, C.P.
Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit...
Uppsala, J.F. Erdman, 1794-1805. Folio (430 x 275mm). Only 10 of 50 engraved plates, loose.
EUR 1,800
The publishing history of the present work is probably the most bizarre one in the history of botany
VELLOZO, J. M. da CONCEIÇAO.
Florae Fluminensis Icones.
Parisis, ex off. Lithogr. Senefelder, curante F.J. Knecht, 1827. 10 of 11 volumes (lacking volume 3). Large-folio (520 x 345mm). With 1472 (of 1640...
EUR 20,000
The first Latin and best edition
ZANONI, G.
Rariorum Stirpium Historia ex parte olim edita. Nunc centum plus tabulis, ex commentariis auctoris ab ejusdem nepotibus ampliata opus universum digessit, latine reddidit, supplevitque Cajetanus Montius.
Bononiae, Ex Typographia Lealii a Vulpe, 1742. Folio (390 x 260mm). pp. (40), 247, with an engravedallegorical frontispiece and engraved portrait o...
EUR 3,900