Live auction - Lot 705

[Botany]

MICHAUX, Andreas

Flora boreali-americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit. Tabulis aeneis 51 ornata. Tomus primus [- secundus].

Paris, Strasbourg, Levrault, 1803

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2 vol., 8vo: x-[2]-330, [4]-340 pp. (some spotting).

Cont. tawny quarter calf (corners rubbed and sl. bumped), flat spines, red leather title label. Good copy.

Important work "resté longtemps le plus complet pour cette région" by the French botanist André Michaux (1746-1802) "qui, bien que dénué de ressources, n'hésitait pas à franchir les déserts ou à explorer des forêts presque impénétrables" (Répertoire bibliographique de la bibliothèque Arpad Plesch, Brussels, 1973, p. 335). Illustrated with 50 (of 51) nice engravings by Plée after Redouté. Ref. Nissen (BBI) 1357. - Pritzel 470. - Graesse IV:516. Prov. Prince Stolberg (libr. stamps on titles).

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Lot 705

Flora boreali-americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit. Tabulis aeneis 51 ornata. Tomus primus [- secundus].

MICHAUX, Andreas

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