Author: Debeaux, [J.] O.
Title: Contribution à la flore de la Chine, comprenant les algues marines récoltées en China et les florules de Shang-Hai, Tché-Fou et Tien-Tsin.
Description: Paris, F. Savy, [1875]-1879. Four parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 361 pp. [3-21; 3-78; 3-191; 3-79]; six lithographed plates [1;0;3;2], and two original drawings in pen, ink and pencil. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = Very rare flora on certain parts of China, with original manuscript drawings, possibly by the author, viz., one with eight figures of the flora of Tché-Fou with descriptions, and one captioned 'Hydrocharia Asiatica Miguel'. Written by the French botanist Jean Odon Debeaux (1826-1910). First published in parts in the Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, but here present as offprints with a new title. Cat. BM(NH) p. 431. Neither in Nissen, nor in Stafleu and Cowan. A very well-preserved copy.

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