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CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE) Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801 image 1
CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE) Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801 image 2
CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE) Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801 image 3
CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE) Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801 image 4
CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE) Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801 image 5
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CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE)
Icones et descriptiones plantarum, FIRST EDITION, Madrid, 1791-1801

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CAVANILLES (ANTONIO JOSE)

Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, 601 plates (including 500 bis), tear touching text on p.79 of volume 2, some spotting, toning and damp-staining, washed, modern half green morocco, text block detached from spine in vol. 1 and 6, hinges starting in other volumes, worn, corners bumped [Brunet I, 1698; Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 341; Pritzel 1616], folio, Madrid, Ex Regia Typographia, 1791-1801

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THE MOST IMPORTANT SPANISH FLORA OF ITS TIME, INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOUTH AMERICAN EXOTICS.

Provenance: Biblioteca Del I.S.D.J Maldonado, Maganaz, institutional label and shelf mark in ink on first free endpapers; The Horticultural Society of New York (bequest of Kenneth Mackenzie 1934), bookplate; Robert De Belder, his sale (A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books), Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, lot 64.

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