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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von and Aime J. A. BONPLAND. Plantes équinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique, dans l'ile de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle-Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du Rio-Negro, de l'Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones. Paris: F. Schoell and Tuebingen: J.G. Cotta, 1808-09.
2 volumes, 2o (510 x 340 mm). Half-title, titles in French and Latin, engraved dedicatory portrait frontispiece and 143 engraved plates by Sellier after Poiteau and Turpin. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (some wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Stickney Fund (bookplate dated 1893; stamps).
FIRST EDITION, of Plantes équinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique... the first section of the sixth part of Humboldt's and Bonpland's monumental scientific survey of Central and South America, conducted between 1799 and 1804. Sabin calls Plantes équinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique... "one of the greatest works on American botany ever put forth." Stafleu and Cowan remark that Humboldt's own copy of this work was uncolored. A contemporary announcement of this work mentions no issue with colored plates. Dunthorne 143; Great Flower Books 51; Nissen BBI 954; Sabin 33760; Stafleu and Cowan TL2 3141. (2)
2 volumes, 2o (510 x 340 mm). Half-title, titles in French and Latin, engraved dedicatory portrait frontispiece and 143 engraved plates by Sellier after Poiteau and Turpin. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (some wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Stickney Fund (bookplate dated 1893; stamps).
FIRST EDITION, of Plantes équinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique... the first section of the sixth part of Humboldt's and Bonpland's monumental scientific survey of Central and South America, conducted between 1799 and 1804. Sabin calls Plantes équinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique... "one of the greatest works on American botany ever put forth." Stafleu and Cowan remark that Humboldt's own copy of this work was uncolored. A contemporary announcement of this work mentions no issue with colored plates. Dunthorne 143; Great Flower Books 51; Nissen BBI 954; Sabin 33760; Stafleu and Cowan TL2 3141. (2)