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DREVES, JOHANN FRIEDRICH GOTTLOB and FRIEDRICH GOTTLOB HAYNE. Choix des Plantes d'Europe... Leipzig: Voss et Compagnie, 1802. 5 vols. in one, 4to, 264 x 209 mm., contemporary calf-backed mottled boards, gilt-lettered spine label, minor wear. 125 hand-colored engraved plates. Nissen BBI 529.
This work was originally issued as Botanisches Bilderbuch (published from 1794 to 1805), and contained the same set of plates plus another 27, not issued in this edition. Some of the plates are copied from Curtis's Flora Londinensis.
Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate.
This work was originally issued as Botanisches Bilderbuch (published from 1794 to 1805), and contained the same set of plates plus another 27, not issued in this edition. Some of the plates are copied from Curtis's Flora Londinensis.
Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate.