Author: Brongniart, A.
Title: Examen de quelques cas de monstruosités végétales, propres a éclairer la structure du pistil et l'origine des ovules.
Description: Paris, Gide, 1839. Large 4to (30.7 x 23.9 cm). 21 pp., drop head title, two engraved plates. Disbound. = A well-illustrated paper on aberrant flowers and ideas about their development, and that of flowers in general. Written and illustrated by Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), one of France's most versatile scientists. Title page spotted, and too a much lesser extent the other pages and plates, otherwise a good wide-margined copy. Rare.

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