Catalogo de flores.[Barcelona, Francisco Suria y Burgada, ca. 1775]. Small 8vo (14 x 9.5 cm). Later(?) decorated-paper wrappers.

XX pp.Unrecorded nursery catalogue listing 323 flowers (numbered in eleven groups) offered for sale by a flower merchant named Guiot. Although the catalogue contains no imprint and does not give the merchant's address, he was probably in or near Barcelona, where the catalogue was printed. It gives the names and colours of 15 Plantas de Claveles [carnations], 35 Jacintos Dobles [hyacinths], 20 Narcissos muy Dobles [daffodils and narcissus], 25 Jonquilles Dobles [jonquils], 7 Varas de Jessé Dobles [amaryllis and related?], 25 Tulipas muy Raras [tulips], 12 Flores muy Raras, 4 Otras Flores muy raras, 15 Rosales odoriferous á cien hojas [roses], 100 Francillas dobles muy raras (plus 5 unnumbered sorts) [amphion and related?], and 60 Nemoras muy Dobles [nemoras].Two French publications on forestry appeared in Paris in 1770 under the author's name Guiot: Manuel forestier & portatif and l'Arpenteur forestier, (Bradley IV, 108 & 263) but this may have no relation to the (Barcelona?) flower merchant who published the present Catalogo de flores.In very good condition, title-page slightly smudged. With only about 5 mm trimmed from the margins. Unique and unrecorded Barcelona flower catalogue, describing a wide variety of tulips, roses and many others.l Not in Maria del Carmon Simon Palmer, Bibliografia de Cataluña II (1766-1820); CCPB; KVK & Worldcat; Histoire de la botanique en France; Palau.