Renato Desfontaines | Flora Atlantica..., Paris, [1798-1800]

Renato Desfontaines

Flora Atlantica, sive historia plantarum, quae in Atlante, agro Tunetato et Algeriensi crescunt. Paris: Blanchon, [1798-1800]

FIRST EDITION, Stafleu's second issue, 4to (311 x 221mm.), 4 volumes, 263 plain engraved plates by Guyard and Maloeuvre, after Maréchal, P.J. Redouté, Fossier, H.J. Redouté and Maloeuvre, red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, leaves uncut, scattered spotting

Separated into two text and two plate volumes, this work by the French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines introduced 300 new genera to science.

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 92; Great Flower Books, p.55; Nissen BBI 475; Stafleu TL2 1392