Icones Euphorbiarum, ou Figures de cent vingt-deux espèces du genre Euphorbia, dessinées et Gravées par Heyland, avec des considérations sur la classification et la distribution géographique des plantes de ce genre par E. Boissier
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1866.
Large quarto (420 × 345 mm), 24 pages plus 122 full-page lithographed plates (numbered 1-120, plus 31 and 40 bis). The plates were printed by two Geneva lithographers, the first 60 by Mercier & Cie. and the rest by Duc.
Early half leather and marbled boards lettered in gilt on the spine; covers a little worn; letterpress leaves a little tanned; tiny edge tears to the first few leaves and two plates (31 and 114) expertly sealed; apposite (but unobtrusive) pencil annotations to approximately 16 plates; a few fingermarks and other minor signs of age and handling; an excellent copy.
Provenance: 'Bibliothèque de l'Herbier Boissier', with an early label on the front pastedown (with 'Double' stamped and written across it). This herbarium, based around Boissier's own vast collections, is now part of the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève. Later, Kenneth Kent MacKenzie, a New York lawyer and botanist, with the bookplate of the Mackenzie bequest to the Horticultural Society of New York (and with the Society's blindstamp on plate 71).
Item #144010
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00