Essai Sur Les Cryptogames des Ecorces Exotiques Officinales, Precede D'Une Methode Lichenographique, et D'Un Genera, Avec des Considerations Sur la Reproduction des Agames
by FEE, Par A.- L. A
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Firmin Didot Pere et Fils 1824. COMPLETE ORIGINAL 1824 FIRST EDITION TOGETHER WITH MATCHING 1837 SUPPLEMENTAL VOLUME, quarto, leather quarter bound marbled boards (rebound), gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled eps, coloured plates with tissue guards to prelims, civ + 167pp + colourd plates with tissue guards to rear (178pp + plates to rear of supplemental volume), VG (moderate sun fading to spines, light scuffing to board edges, moderate age appropriate tanning & foxing to page edges, owner's name in ink to eps of both vols, light cracking to gutters of prelims, sporadic closed tearing to verso of half title page of supplmental vol with subtle tape repairs, moderate water staining to bottom corners of first 24 pgs of supp vol, pg xxxv of intro completely loose with pgs xxxvi & xxxvii of intro completely missing, age appropriate foxing & tanning to pages throughout both vols)
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- Essai Sur Les Cryptogames des Ecorces Exotiques Officinales, Precede D'Une Methode Lichenographique, et D'Un Genera, Avec des Considerations Sur la Reproduction des Agames
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- FEE, Par A.- L. A
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- Firmin Didot Pere et Fils 1824
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- TEXT IN FRENCH first edition lichens cryptogams botany hidden reproduction spore plants thallus thallophytes illustrated supplement essays literature lichenography
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