A. Mutel - Flore du Dauphiné ou description succincte des plantes - 1830

Exciting illustrated edition of 4 folding plates at the endpaper of this important botanical description enterprise devoted to the flora of Dauphiné and following in the tradition of the great regional floras of the 19th century, intended to inventory, classify, and make known the plants present in a given territory -

The author does not limit his study to wild plants spontaneously encountered in the mountains, valleys, meadows, forests, and cultivated grounds of Dauphiné, since he also takes into account species cultivated for human and animal use, thus giving the work a dimension that is scientific, agricultural, medicinal, and practical -

The Dauphiné territory, then including extremely varied geographical environments, offers a particularly favorable field for botanical observation, from plains and wetlands to alpine reliefs, with differences in altitude, temperature, exposure, and soil nature that determine the distribution of plant species -

A. Mutel - Flore du Dauphiné or Succinct Description of the Plants Growing Naturally in Dauphiné or Cultivated for the Use of Humans and Animals, preceded by a summary of botany, analysis of the genera and their table according to Linnaeus' system - 1830 - 2 volumes in 1 - Prudhomme, Treuttel et Wurtz -
[xii, 148; 544] pp.,

Good condition of the binding, work in its original half Morocco binding, wear from use, minor defects on boards and spine, headcaps worn, gold-tooled spine partly faded, spine tips and corners worn, speckled edges, long spine ornamented with roulettes -

Good interior condition, foxing, varnish work in the margin of plate I, small tear without loss on plate IV, work enriched with 4 folding plates at the end, FAVEYRIAL stamp, flyleaves in correct condition, pleasant copy -

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