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Lot 41

AUBLET (JEAN B.C. FUSÉE)
Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Francoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objects intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane Francoise, & une notice des plantes de l'Isle-de-France, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, London, and Paris, Pierre-Francois Didot, 1775

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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AUBLET (JEAN B.C. FUSÉE)

Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Francoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objects intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane Francoise, & une notice des plantes de l'Isle-de-France, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles in volumes 1, 3 and 4 (as called for), 392 engraved plates, lacks frontispiece, 3Iiv and 3Ki cancels, occasional spotting, some light pencil annotations (giving Linnaean names), contemporary calf, rebacked, rebacked in calf, lettered in gilt on spine [Nissen BBI 54; Henrey 428; Sabin 22317], 4to, London, and Paris, Pierre-Francois Didot, 1775

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The first flora of French Guiana. Aublet (1720-1778) spent three years there assembling a large herbarium, and describes some 400 species for the first time, and nearly thirty new genera.

Provenance: Robert Travers, M.B., Trinity College, Dublin, ownership inscription on half-titles and title versos.

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