Accession number
PML 49795-96
Creator
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841.
Published
Paris : P. Didot, l'ainé, 1799-[1803?]
Credit line
Gift of Junius S. Morgan and Henry S. Morgan, 1958.
Notes
A re-issue by Didot of 145 plates (not numbered) ...
... 28 in 1803, and livr. 29-31 in 1828-1832?.
Plates in stipple, printed in color, some finished by hand.
Latin and French.
Includes 144 col. plates relating to leaves 1-112, 114-138.
Published also with title: Plantarum historia succulentorum.
Text for each plate is numbered only once and usually continues verso, but some numbers continue for several pages. There are 2 plates relating to leaf 68, 125-126, 137; and 4 relating to leaf 138; there is no leaf 113.
This copy is described as is; see TL-2 for discussion of variation in makeup.
Continuous pagination.
... 28 in 1803, and livr. 29-31 in 1828-1832?.
Plates in stipple, printed in color, some finished by hand.
Latin and French.
Includes 144 col. plates relating to leaves 1-112, 114-138.
Published also with title: Plantarum historia succulentorum.
Text for each plate is numbered only once and usually continues verso, but some numbers continue for several pages. There are 2 plates relating to leaf 68, 125-126, 137; and 4 relating to leaf 138; there is no leaf 113.
This copy is described as is; see TL-2 for discussion of variation in makeup.
Continuous pagination.
Description
2 v. : ill. ; 52 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Morgan's collection; Estate of Mrs. J.P. Morgan.
Binding
3/4 dark green morocco.
Classification
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Department