Musci Exotici. containing figures and descriptions of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects

Hooker, William Jackson.

Verlag: 1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1818-1820

Beschreibung

Two volume set; pp.viii with 176 fine hand-coloured, copper engraved plates, each with page of text, 31-page index plus Errata. Collated and complete. Large 4to. Some minor spotting and off-setting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Fore-edges marbled with matching end-papers. Very handsome, contemporary, panelled full-calf leather, richly decorated with gilt and blind-tooling. Professionally rebacked, with corners neatly repaired. Boards lightly rubbed in places, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. Prov: John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (1750-1827), his bookplate, and Coronet ink-stamp to verso of front endpapers. Large-paper copy. Scarce. A very pleasing, large paper copy of one of Hooker s earliest and most scarce works. A large number of the specimens illustrated were collected by Alexander Humboldt, whom Hooker met in Paris in 1814. Furthermore, there are also descriptions of rare mosses found by Archibald Menzies at Dusky Bay, New Zealand, during Vancouver s 1791 voyage on the Discovery . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 55354

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Titel: Musci Exotici. containing figures and ...

Verlag: 1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1818-1820

Einband: Hardcover