A rare work on Chinese botany with extra, original drawings

Debeaux, [J.] O.

Contribution à la flore de la Chine, comprenant les algues marines récoltées en China et les florules de Shang-Hai, Tché-Fou et Tien-Tsin.

Published [1875]-1879
Item ID 43816
€750.00

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Paris, F. Savy, [1875]-1879. Four parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 361 pp. [3-21; 3-78; 3-191; 3-79]; six lithographed plates [1;0;3;2], and two original drawings in pen, ink and pencil. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

Very rare flora on certain parts of China, with original manuscript drawings, possibly by the author, viz., one with eight figures of the flora of Tché-Fou with descriptions, and one captioned ' Hydrocharia Asiatica Miguel'. Written by the French botanist Jean Odon Debeaux (1826-1910). First published in parts in the Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, but here present as offprints with a new title. Cat. BM(NH) p. 431. Neither in Nissen, nor in Stafleu and Cowan. A very well-preserved copy.

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