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Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Alois Sterler and Johann Nepomuck Mayerhoffer | Europa's medicinische Flora, Munich, 1820 [-24], modern half calf

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Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven


Alois Sterler and Johann Nepomuck Mayerhoffer


Europa's Medicinische Flora. Munich: Lentner für Mayerhoffer, 1820 [-1824]


Folio (377 x 252mm.), title-page, dedication, 80 hand-coloured lithographed plates, modern half-calf over marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, lacking lithographed frontispiece, plates 6 and 9 with repaired closed tears at margins (not affecting illustrations), some plates and text leaves bound tightly, light spotting and browning, margins slightly soiled 


LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 77; Nissen BBI 1894; Stafleu TL2 13014

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