La Maout's Botanical Catalogue

LE MAOUT, Emmanuel.  BOTANIQUE ORGANOGRAPHIE ET TAXONOMIE HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES FAMILIES VEGETABLES ET DES PRINCIPALES ESPECES.

Paris: L. Curmer, 1852. 4to. Publisher's quarter-calf. Frontispiece, (iv), xxviii, 387, (1) pages, 49 plates, of which 30 colored. First edition.

Le Maout's botanical catalogue of vegetable and ornamental flowering plants.  Nineteen of the plates are woodcut plates on toned backgrounds.  The remaining thirty plates are brightly hand-colored specimens.  Bookplate.  Respined; tips worn.

$500.00