Flora atlantica 3 Volume Set : Sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt Multiple-component retail product
by Rene Louiche Desfontaines
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture series
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A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent the years 1783–5 on an expedition to North Africa.
During his time in Tunisia and Algeria, he collected over a thousand plant specimens: more than three hundred genera were new to European naturalists at this time.
Having succeeded Le Monnier in the chair of botany at the Jardin du Roi in 1786, Desfontaines helped found the Institut de France following the Revolution and published his two-volume Flora atlantica in Latin in 1798–9.
A lavishly illustrated second edition appeared in four volumes in 1800.
Combining its two volumes of plates into one, this reissue will give modern researchers an insight into the promulgation of pioneering plant science.
Volumes 1 and 2 contain the twenty-four classes of plants in Linnaean taxonomy, while Volume 3 brings together the 261 line engravings.
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- Pages:1224 pages
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- Publication Date:05/09/2013
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- Pages:1224 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781108064507