Author: Wildeman, É. [A. J.] De
Title: Flore des Algues de Belgique. Lettre-préface de M. L. Errera.
Description: Bruxelles, Alfred Castaigne, 1896. Large 8vo (25.2 x 15.9 cm). xxxviii, 485 pp. 106 text figures. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. Patterned endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in = With descriptions, illustrations, keys to the species, and distribution notes. The author mainly published on tropical botany, but also a good deal on algae. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title, "À Monsieur le Prof Van Bambeke". this is most likely the Belgian medical doctor Charles van Bambeke (1829-1918). He co-founded, with the famous zoologist and palaeontologist Van Beneden, the Archives Biologie, the leading biological journal in Belgium. A very good, well-bound copy. Not in Stafleu and Cowan.

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