Botany.- Dreves (J.F.) and F.G. Hayne. Choix de Plantes d'Europe

Botany.- Dreves (J.F.) and F.G. Hayne. Choix de Plantes d'Europe, 5 vol., 125 hand-coloured engraved plates, many numbered in ink at foot, 2ff. working loose but holding in vol.5, occasional spotting, mostly to text, Royal Horticultural Society and Lindley Library bookplates and cancellation stamp, contemporary boards, rebacked, slightly rubbed, [Nissen BBI 529], 4to, Leipzig, 1802. *** The excellent plates were engraved by J.S. Capieux, an artist of great talent who illustrated some of the finest botanical works in Germany of the period. He illustrated a great number of Johann Hedwig's and Georg Franz Hoffmann's works on cryptogams.

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