E. de Halacsy - Conspectus Florae Graecae, three volumes + both supplements - 1900-1912

Eugen von Halácsy. Conspectus Flora Graecae - a rare complete set. 1900 - 1912.

Bound in three volumes, cloth. Thick octavo. All parts have their printed title pages.

Volume I. [1900] - 1901. Pages xxvi, 825, with the original card covers bound in.

Volume II. 1902. Pages 612, with the original card covers bound in.

Volume III. 1904. Pages 519,(i), with plain brown card covers bound in, (though the front one has a large stamp - Halacsy Conspectus 3 - which looks as though this was how it was originally issued). + Supplementum, 1908. Pages 132. + Supplementum Secundum 1912, pages 105 - both these having their original card covers bound in.

RARE - particularly with the second supplement which virtually never occurs for sale.
A seminal work, and one of the cornerstones of Greek botanical taxonomy.

A fine provenance - from the library of Cambridge Botanic Garden, with their stamp on the front endpaper. There are traces of a label removed from inside the front covers.

[Eugen von Halácsy, also known as Jenő Halácsy (1842 – 1913) was an Austrian physician and botanist of Hungarian descent. in 1865 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and afterwards served under surgeon Johann von Dumreicher during the Austro-Prussian War (1866). In 1867 he settled as a general practitioner in Vienna. He specialized in flora of the Balkan peninsula, and on several occasions traveled to Greece, where he worked closely with Theodor von Heldreich, director of the botanical garden in Athens. He issued two exsiccata-like series of herbarium specimens entitled Iter graecum a. 1888 and Iter graecum secundum a. 1893. In 1912 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens. His extensive herbarium is housed in Vienna.]