Plantarum brasiliensium. Decas Prima / Secunda / Tertia

by Brazil, Carol Peter /Billberg / Thunberg, Carolus Otto

$2,250 · Offered by Martayan Lan

A rare series of three consecutively printed dissertations (2 of them illustrated) on the flora of Brazil, diligently recorded in standard Linnaean form by Carl Thunberg, Linnaeus’s foremost disciple and the greatest botanical explorer and collector of his day. The specimens were collected by Georg Wilhelm Freyreiss in his travels..... More

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