Monographia Generis Melocacti
by MIQUEL, FRIEDRICH ANTON WILHELM
First edition
Price: $450.00
- Bookseller: Antiquariat Botanicum
- Seller Inventory #: 0000176
- Format: 1/4 cloth
- Book condition: Very Good
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Apud Eduardum Weber,
- Place: Vratislavia et Bonnae:
- Date published: 1840.
Book Description
Vratislavia et Bonnae: : Apud Eduardum Weber, , 1840. . First edition. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. Large 4to (38.3 x 22.1 cm). With 11 lithographed numbered plates (6 folding). Contemporary cloth spine and marble boards. [3] 4-120 pp. + 11 lithograph plates (6 folding) with partial or full hand coloring. Spine has loss at top and break in paper along hinges, but still quite sound. There is the book plate of Arpad Plesch on front paste down. The text is very good with age browning to the plates. There is no foxing. (Nissen, BBI 1387; Pritzel 6262; Stafleu & Cowan 6093) This is a reprint of a publication of Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Vol. XVIII Supplement. This is a monograph on the Melocacti or melon cacti with excellent lithograph plates to complement the Latin descriptive text. Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811-1871) was a Dutch botanist, practicing physician and director of the botanical garden at Amsterdam (1846-1859), Utrecht (1859-1871), and the Leiden Rijksherbarium from 1862 (Stafleu III p. 508).
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