"Being a Description of All the Species of Flowering Plants Indigenous to Switzerland; and of the Alpine Species of the Adjacent Mountain Districts of France, Italy, & Austria Including the Pyrenees". Fine bindings. Binders stamp Langley, Reading. In two volumes. With one hundred and twenty coloured plates. Half-leather over marbled boards with gilt borders. Gilt titles, gilt raised bands, gilt panel vignettes to spine. Gilt top page-block, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. A scarce copy. Volume I. xxii, 165 pages. Frontispiece colour plate with tissue-guard. 57 full-page colour plates. Volume II. vi, 223 pages. Frontispiece colour plate with tissue-guard. 61 full-page colour plates. "Alfred William Bennett was a British botanist and publisher best known for his work on the flora of the Swiss Alps, cryptogams, and the Polygalaceae or Milkwort plant family. This book describes the plants of Switzerland and of the Alpine species of the adjacent mountain districts of France, Italy and Austria, including the Pyrenees". Shipped and insured [courier liability] with DHL Express. N.B. Remote Areas and Island Destinations incur an additional shipping costs of €19.50 levied by the Courier company. Please do not bid unless you are prepared to make this payment should it apply to your address otherwise books cannot ship.