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3 volumes, 8vo (206 x 123 mm) XXXII, 389 pp., 1 nn.l. (blank) for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 460 pp. for volume II; 2 nn.l., 456 pp. for volume III. Illustrated with a total of 63 numbered plates inculding 9 numbered ‘bis’ or ‘ter’. Nineteenth-century half sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, speckled edges.
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Nissen, BBI, 1436; Pritzel, 6633 (erroneous collation); Stafleu-Cowan, III, 6670 (mentions a portrait, not called for by Nissen); not in Hunt.
First and only edition.
The work is illustrated with 63 engraved plates, not 54 as Pritzel notes. In fact one has to add the 9 supplementary plates (11bis, 13bis, 14bis, 41bis, 45bis, 45ter, 52bis, 53bis, 54bis). These plates are bound here in the greatest disorder, with an added extra set of plates 35 to 41.
A doctor of medicine at the University of Douai, Necker was the botanist to the Elector Palatine Charles Theodore of Bavaria, to whom he dedicated his work.
A fine copy, complete with its 63 botanical plates.
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