1886 Ferdinand Von Mueller Myoporinous Plants Australia 75 Lithographs Botany
by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
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Description and Illustrations of the Myoporinous Plants of Australia II. Lithograms Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, Government Botanist for Victoria Melbourne, 1886 An exceptionally attractive original example of one of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller's major nineteenth-century works on Australian botany, retaining its original publisher's dark green cloth binding and complete suite of 75 full-page lithographs. Mueller, Baron Ferdinand von. Description and Illustrations of the Myoporinous Plants of Australia. II. Lithograms. Melbourne: By Authority, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886. Large quarto. Original dark green pebble-grain publisher's cloth, boards elaborately decorated in blind with botanical corner ornaments and ruled borders; spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt: MYOPORINOUS PLANTS OF AUSTRALIA / MUELLER / II. / LITHOGRAMS. Original yellow endpapers. The work comprises preliminary matter including title, dedication to former Victorian Premier James Service, preface and alphabetical and systematic/geographic indexes, followed by the botanical plates and their accompanying descriptive letterpress. The botanical suite comprises Plates I–LXXII and Supplemental Plates I–II - 74 botanical plates - together with the lithographic frontispiece of Myoporum insulare, for 75 full-page lithographs in total. Complete. Each botanical plate is accompanied by its descriptive letterpress leaf. The illustrations depict species of Eremophila, Myoporum and allied Australian plants in
- Publisher: John Ferres, Government Printer
- Year: 1886
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Very Good
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