Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum
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SYRIA. LABILLARDIÈRE, JACQUES JULIEN HOUTON DE. Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum, desriptionibus et observartionibus illustratae. Decas I-V. Lutetiae Parisiorum (Paris, impensis autoris et prostat venalis apud Prevost [later Huzard]) 1791-1812.
Small 4:o (263x200 mm.). 49 (of 50, lacks plate 7 in part III) engraved plates (one folding, plates slightly waterstained) after drawings by the Redoutes, Turpin and Poitea.
New half vellum. Some marginal nagging in upper outer corneror outer margin not affecting text or plates. Some marginal discolouring.
Pagination: (2), 3-22, (2 blank), (2), 3-18, (2 blank), (2), 3-16, (2), 3-16, (2), 3- 16 pp.
Nissen, BBI 1115, Pritzel 4964, Great Flower Books, p. 63.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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