Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy | Les chênes de l'Europe et de l'Orient, Paris, 1864, contemporary morocco backed boards

Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy

Les chênes de l'Europe et de l'Orient, descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1864

Folio (586 x 406mm.), 40 chromolithographed plates, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers, some spotting, transfer, extremities bumped

Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866) was an Austrian botanist and explorer, who collected an impressive number of botanical specimens throughout his travels (predominantly in Syria, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia, etc.). This work describes forty species of oak, some of which were contemporaneously new to science.

LITERATURE:

Stafleu TL2 3890