Author: PLESCH (Arpad)
Title: Mille et un Livres Botaniques de la Collection Arpad Plesch.
Description: Arcade, Brussels. 1973. First Edition, large 4to, 520pp., bookplate removed, ink marks (ticks or crosses) against each item, 34 coloured illustrs., (full page), with a number of monochrome illustrs., (mostly facsimiles), orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case. Plesch's catalogue of his own magnificent library of illustrated botanical books, which was dispersed at Sotheby's in 1975-76. An important work giving full collations, footnotes and bibliographical references. Records several thousand botanical works, well in excess of the 863 items in the Sotheby's sale catalogues.

Keywords: BOTANICAL BOOKS BOTANY