Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande recueillies et decrites...

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Sale 428: Americana - Travel - Natural History - Cartography (#428) 05/13/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #73Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande recueillies et decrites...

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Sale 428: Americana - Travel - Natural History - Cartography (#428) 05/13/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Title:

Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande recueillies et decrites...

Author:

Raoul, Edouard Fiacre Louis

Place Published:

Paris

Publisher:

Fortin, Masson, et Cie.

Date Published:

1846

Description:

[iv], 53, [1] pp. 30 engraved plates by Eugennie Taillant after Alfred Riocreux. (Folio) 14¾x11, original cloth backed wrappers. Custom clamshell box.

Raoul describes 60 plants - mostly new species collected at the Bay of Islands and Banks Peninsula - and gives a full listing of all New Zealand plants know to date, amounting to 920 species.

Condition:

Some wear, chipping and soiling to wrappers; light marginal dampstaining throughout, just touching images in a few cases; else very good.

Item#:

210095

Headline:

Plants of New Zealand 1846
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