Voyage of the Bonite - Atlas only for Voyage autour du monde executé pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite commandée par M. Vaillant

by Charles Gaudichot

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Paris: Anthus Bertrand, 1841-42 . Folio, 120 engraved botanical plates with later coloring, a number of them composite. Includes plate nos. 1-100, and 131-150. The entire work, published over a 26-year span, ran to some 26 text volumes and 3 atlases containing 357 plates. These engravings are noteworthy for the abundance of analytical details, their high quality of execution, and the large number of South American and South Pacific species and genera based

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