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BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL) Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880 image 1
BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL) Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880 image 2
BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL) Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880 image 3
BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL) Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880 image 4
BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL) Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880 image 5
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BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL)
Flora de Filipinas, DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880

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BLANCO (FRANCISCO MANUEL)

Flora de Filipinas...adicionada con el manuscrito inedito del P. Fr. Ignacio Mercado...Gran edicion hecha a expensas de la provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la direccion cientifica del P. Fr Andres Naves, 8 vol. (5 of text and 3 of plates), DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, lithographed additional allegorical title, etched frontispiece plate dedicated to the memory of Blanco, etched portrait of Blanco, 1 page tinted lithographic manuscript facsimile of Blanco's notes, 472 (of 477) chromolithographed plates after Lorenzo Guerrero, Regino Garcia y Basa, Fabian Domingo, C.Arguelles, J.Garcia, Rosendo Garcia, F.Martinez and others, printed by C.Verdaguer of Barcelona, faint toning and spotting, occasional plates with small tears to margins, text and plates loose in modern chemises and solander boxes [Nissen BBI 170; Great Flower Books, p.50], folio (plates 430 x 300mm.), Manila, Establecimiento Tipografico de Plana y Ca, 1877-1880

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THE DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, AND THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. This rare and monumental work marks the beginning of botanical illustration in the Philippines, describing the flowers, fruits, and trees of the area. Flora Filipinas was first published in Manila in a small quarto volume in 1837, while a second edition was published in 1845, both of which were not illustrated. For this 1877 illustrated edition, Blanco's text was expanded and amended. It was issued in two formats: an economy edition, with the plates uncoloured and numbered, and the present limited deluxe edition ("edicion de lujo" as stated in the engraved title page), with coloured plates.

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