Author: Saporta, G. De and A. F. Marion
Title: Révision de la flore Heersienne de Gelinden d'après une collection appartenant au comte G. de Looz.
Description: Bruxelles, Hayez, 1873. 4to (29.5 x 23.2 cm). 112 pp., 14 tinted lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Description of a well-preserved Flora and including many new species (the great majority), and some described by others. Nicely illustrated. This is a sequel to an earlier work by the same authors on the same Palaeocene flora (ca. 58 MYBP). Louis Charles Joseph Gaston Marquis de Saporta (1823-1895) was a great specialist in fossil plants. Apart from strictly descriptive taxonomical works he wrote extensively about the origin and palaeontology of plants. Uncut. Spine split, wrapper edges a bit chipped, otherwise very good, with clean plates. Stafleu and Cowan, 10.274.

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