Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linnaeanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur plantae illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo aliisque et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores; adjectis iconibus ad autoris archetypa pictis.

Accession number

PML 61200

Creator

Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von, 1727-1817.

Published

[Vindobonae, ca. 1780]

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan.

Notes

Second ed.
An edition with 183 uncolored engravings was issued in 1763.
Only 18 copies issued.
Hand-painted floral t.p. signed Joseph Hofbauer (?).

Description

136, [4] p. : 264 col. plates ; 48 cm.

Provenance

From the collections of Jane Norton Grew Morgan (Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.) and her son Henry S. Morgan.

Binding

Red morocco.

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