PAYER, Jean-Baptiste (1818-1860).: — Traité d'organographie comparée de la fleur.

Paris: Victor Masson, 1857. 2 volumes (text & atlas), 4to, 27.7cm. Vol. 1: pp. viii,748; vol. 2: pp. viii, very numerous finely etched figures on 154 plates printed on thick paper. Hardbound, old half cloth, marbled boards, gilt title to backstrips, uncut. Some local foxing confined to margins, slight trace of handling to edges of binding, very good otherwise. - Very rare. Stafleu & Cowan 7562: "The book is an often overlooked but extremely rich source of systematic and morphogenetic information". - [phd.1038]