MORIS, GIUSEPPE GIANCINTO. Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum. Turin, 1837-59. 3 vols., 4to, 271 x 208 mm., contemporary half calf, minor wear to corners, extremities rubbed. FIRST EDITION of the first flora of Sardinia and adjacent islands. 114 engraved plates after drawings by M. Lisa and Jean-Cristoph Heyland, by S. Botta, L. Fea, H. Mil ad A. Nizza. Great Flower Books, p. 69; Nissen BBI 1410; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6329; Pritzel 6461.

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MORIS, GIUSEPPE GIANCINTO. Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum. Turin, 1837-59. 3 vols., 4to, 271 x 208 mm., contemporary half calf, minor wear to corners, extremities rubbed. FIRST EDITION of the first flora of Sardinia and adjacent islands. 114 engraved plates after drawings by M. Lisa and Jean-Cristoph Heyland, by S. Botta, L. Fea, H. Mil ad A. Nizza. Great Flower Books, p. 69; Nissen BBI 1410; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6329; Pritzel 6461.

Provenance: Massachusetts Horticultural Society copy, with bookplate and small circular stamp on plates (sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 October 1980, lot 151. (3)

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