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OERSTED, Anders Sandöe. L'Amerique Centrale. Recherches sur sa flore et sa géographie physique; resultats d'un voyage dans les Etats de Costa Rica et de Nicaragua executé pendant les années 1846-48, Copenhagen: F.S. Muhle, 1863, part one (all published) 2°, lithographed map, 21 plates, most after Thornam and including 2 tinted lithographed scenes (perforation stamp on title, some spotting), original cloth-backed printed boards (rubbed, lacking part of backstrip, gutta percha perished) [Pritzel 6808] -- Martin VAHL. Eclogae Americanae, Copenhagen: N. Möller, 1796-[1807], 3 parts in 2 volumes, 2°, 30 engraved plates (lacking text to part III, perforation stamp on titles, ink stamp on verso of plates), library cloth [Nissen BBI 2030; Pritzel 9650] Provenance: JCL -- Constantine Samuel RAFINESQUE (1783-1840). New Flora and Botany of North America, or a supplement flora, Philadelphia: for the author, 1836, 8°, part IV only (of four parts, perforation stamp on titles and one text leaf), modern library cloth [Pritzel 7402] Provenance: JCL; together with Stern's A Study of the Genus Paeonia (1946), Hareux's Les Arbres (1902), 5 volumes of Walcott's North American Wild Flowers (lacking 3 plates); the lot sold not subject to return. (11)