LINNAEUS, Carl.
Genera plantarum ... Editio secunda.
Paris, M.A. David, 1743. With 2 folding engraved plates, and one folding table.
With: (2) BULLIARD, Pierre. Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique. Revu et presqu' entièrement refondu par Louis Claude Richard.
Paris, A.J. Dugour et Gabon, An VII 1798. With 10 folding engraved plates. 8vo. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf, spine richly gold-tooled. 52, 288, [34]; xxxii, [2], 413, [59] pp.
€ 975
Ad 1: Third edition of what is called "the starting-point of modern systematic botany." This edition includes the additions from the Classes Plantarum (1738) and for the first time French names of the different genera. One of the folding engravings is the famous plate after G.D. Ehret, illustrating the sexual system. Ad 2: Fourth edition of a botanical dictionary, the first edited by L.C. Richard.
Title-pages with library stamps and owner's entries; binding rubbed and corners and head of spine damaged. Ad 1: Soulsby 299; Stafleu & Cowan 4714; ad 2: Hunt 432; Stafleu & Cowan 910.
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