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[Vindobonae (Vienna): ex officina Krausiana 1763 ]. [6], 284, [14]pp. With 48 (of 184) plates. Contemporary calf with gilt spine and leather label, rubbed. 23 x 35.5 cm (14x9"), First Edition. The plates are not in order. Some plates are mounted on hinges and some have been removed from the hinges; lacking the title page but with the dedication page to Francisco I. Romanorum Imperatori (Francis I the Holy Roman Emperor).The fruits of Jacquin's expedition to the Americas, and a collection of botanical studies of the Caribbean....Blunt pp. 171-172; Dunthorne 148; Hunt 579; Nissen, BBI 979; Pritzel 4362; Sabin 35521; Stafleu-Cowan 3243

1763. CURIOUS FLORA OF THE WEST INDIES JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Baron von ("Nicolai Josephi Jacquin"). SELECTARUM STIRPIUM AMERICANARUM HISTORIA IN QUA AD LINNAEANUM SYSTEMA DETERMINATAE DESCRIPTAEQUE SISTUNTUR PLANTAE ILLAE, QUAS IN INSULIS MARTINICA, JAMAICA, DOMINGO, ALIIQUE, ET IN VICINIAE CONTINENTIS PARTE, OBSERVAVIT RARIORES; ADJECTIS ICONIBUS IN SOLO NATALI DELINEATIS. Vindobonae [Vienna], ex officina Krausiana, 1763. First edition. a-b4, c-c2, [1] - 284, [1] leaf, 184 engraved plates plus frontispiece: Frontis., plates 1-183, plate 37 with additional plate 37*. Complete. Six plates (86, 179-183) are double-page. Jacquin (1727-1818) studied medicine and was court physician to Empress Maria Theresa. He became enamored of the Schoenbrunn gardens, and was appointed by Francis I as a member of an expedition to the West Indies 1755-1759, gathering botanical specimens. This book, together with his Enumeratio systematica plantarum (1760) was among the first books using the Linnaean binomial system… Read More