Icones ad floram Europae, 1866-1903, 3 volumes, contemporary red half morocco

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Lot 61 | Icones ad floram Europae, 1866-1903, 3 volumes, contemporary red half morocco
Icones ad floram Europae novo fundamento instaurandam spectantes. Paris: F. Savy, 1866-1903

3 volumes, folio (391 x 295mm.), 504 hand-coloured engraved plates by Delorme, J. Furreau, P. Galland and A. Mignot, original paper wrappers bound in at end of volumes 2 and 3, contemporary red half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut, some light spotting, inkstamps on verso of some plates

This set contains the usual number of plates. Jules Pierre Fourreau (1844-1871), was a French botanist, member of the Linnaean society, alongside fellow botanist and taxonomist Alexis Jordan (1814-1897), whom Fourreau served as assistant at the start of his career.
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