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Sale 363: Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine (#363) 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #137Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus Illustrata

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Sale 363: Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine (#363) 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT

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Title:

Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus Illustrata

Author:

Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph von

Place Published:

Viennae, etc.

Publisher:

Christianum F. Wappler, et al.

Date Published:

1794

Description:

[4], 119, [1] pp. With 81 copper-engraved plates, 75 of them hand-colored with tissue guards; folding printed table. (4to) 11½x8¾, early quarter morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. First Edition.

Important botanical study of the genus oxalis, or wood sorrel (so called because of the sour taste of the leaves). The plates are superbly executed on fine paper, the coloring exquisite. Nissen 977.

Condition:

Light foxing to some of the tissue guards, intruding slightly on a few plates, else fine, with the shelf label of the Markree Library on front pastedown.

Item#:

184427

Headline:

Jacquin's Oxalis with colored plates, 1794
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