Die Rosen nach der Natur gezeichnet und colorirt mit kurzen Botanischen Bestimmungen begleitet traduit de l'Allemand par M. de Lahitte

by Carl Gottlieb RÖSsig

$8,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary roan and marbled paper boards One of the earliest and most ambitious attempts to catalogue and illustrate the diversity of the rose, regarded as the second monograph devoted entirely to the genus Rosa. Rare, with no other complete copies in auction records. Rössig's work is widely cited as the second monograph entirely devoted to roses, after Jean Louis Marie Guillemeau's Histoire naturelle de la Rose Paris, 1800 and preceding later standard

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