Live auction - Lot 1149
[Botany]
Mémoires et souvenirs de Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle [...].
Genève ; Paris, J. Cherbuliez, 1862
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Lot description
8vo: xvi-599 pp.
Quarter sheep, marbled paper on covers, flat spine, red leather title label, endpapers renewed (spine faded).
Rare first edition of the memoirs by the Swiss botanist A.P. de Candolle (1778-1841).
Ref. BnF.
Prov. M. Correia da Serra (1750-1823), Portuguese Abbot, polymath-philosopher, diplomat, politician and scientist (stamp and cfr. p. 162 in the here presented work).
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