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CUSIN, LOUIS ANTOINE & EDMONDE ANSBERQUE. Herbier de la flore Française. Lyons: 1867-1876. 25 vols, folio, 405 x 285mm., original cloth-backed boards, vols. I-X rebacked with matching slip-cases, spines of vols. XI-XXV worn, some browning. Numerous 'phytoxygraphique' plates, flower details hand-colored. The rare 26th supplemental volume, on Ferns, of which (according to Nissen) only a few copies were printed, is not present. The c.4800 plates are reproduced by a black-and-white process that produces images much akin to nature-printing. Nissen BBI 444.
Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate. (25)
Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate. (25)