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Flora Atlantica: sive historia plantarum quæ in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Desfontaines, René Louiche, 1750-1833.; Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840.; Redouté, Henri Joseph, 1766-1852.
Publication
Parisiis: Apud Blanchon, 1800

Description

2 v.

First issue: 9 pts., Paris, Desgranges, 1798-1799; 2d issue: 2 v. in 4, Paris, Blanchon, anno viii.

Each of the 2 vols. of text accompanied by a vol. of plates called De plantis.

"Out of a total of 263 (1-261, 76 bis, [225 bis] uncoloured line engravings of plants, 92 are of paintings by P. J. Redouté and 61 of paintings by H.-J. Redouté."-- Stafleu, D, A. Taxonomic lit., 2d ed.

"Emendatio altera ad Floram Atlanticam", (3 p.) inserted at end of vii, probably issued in 1804.

Includes index.

 

Physical Description

 

Subject

Botany -- Tunisia.; Botany -- Algeria.