Les Chenes De Leurope Et De Lorient Descriptions Et Figures De Toutes Les Especes Suivies De

by Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy Carl Horegschj 19th C

$9,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary Morocco-backed mottled boards, spine with raised bands in six gilt-tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. A rare and gorgeously illustrated folio portraying 40 different species of Karl Kotschy's especial passion: oak trees. OCLC finds but one copy. Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was a botanist and explorer who was born in Austrian Silesia in what is today Poland. He was the son of Protestant theologian Carl Friedrich Kotschy 1789-1856 , who was also a

• Binding: Leather

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