Icones plantarum incognitarum quas in India Occidental.Erlangen, Johann Jacob Palm, 1794-[1800]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With XII finely hand-coloured numbered engraved plates. Near contemporary half cloth, marbled sides.
SWARTZ, Olof Peter. · 1760 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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Very rare first and only edition of an illustrated description of 13 Jamaican plants (13 illustrated with 1 plate each, but only the first 9 described) by the Swedish botanist Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818), who had drawn some 200 plants during his travels through the West Indi...