PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741-1811). Flora Rossica, St. Petersburg: typographica Imperiali J.J. Weitbrecht, 1784-88, 2 parts in one volume, 2°, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece showing Catherine II seated on clouds, 101 hand-coloured engraved plates after K.F. Knappe (perforation stamp on one title and one text leaf, ink stamp on verso of both titles and each plate, accession number on bottom right-hand corner of dedication leaf, plate 37 soiled, neat marginal repair to D1 and verso of plate 13), 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Brunet IV, 324; Great Flower Books p.124; Nissen BBI 1482; Plesch 578; Pritzel 6905]

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PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741-1811). Flora Rossica, St. Petersburg: typographica Imperiali J.J. Weitbrecht, 1784-88, 2 parts in one volume, 2°, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece showing Catherine II seated on clouds, 101 hand-coloured engraved plates after K.F. Knappe (perforation stamp on one title and one text leaf, ink stamp on verso of both titles and each plate, accession number on bottom right-hand corner of dedication leaf, plate 37 soiled, neat marginal repair to D1 and verso of plate 13), 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Brunet IV, 324; Great Flower Books p.124; Nissen BBI 1482; Plesch 578; Pritzel 6905]

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Without the extremely rare 25 plates from Volume 2, issued without text in 1831. The work was originally intended to have between 500 and 600 plates but lack of funds made its completion impossible (see illustration on the back cover of this catalogue).

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