Descrizione

Madrid, Eusebio Aguado, 1867. 8vo (20.2 x 14.3 cm). 379 [119; 260] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt ornaments, title gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. = Rare, annotated list of the Iberian ferns, liverworts, horsetails, mosses, fungi, lichens, algae, etc. with many references. Some names may be new. Written by Don Miquel Colmeiro y Penido (1816-1901) who also published the La Botanica y los Botanicos de la Peninsula Hispano-Lusitano in 1858, and became the first president of the Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. This copy is probably a set of two offprints from the Revista. Prog. Ciencias, Tomos [Volumes] XVI and XVII, with new titles and pagination. Bookplate "Toujours le même", of G. Colin Tait. Previous owner's names in right top corner of title page, a few, light pencil annotations (probably by Tait), otherwise a fine clean copy of this little-known work. Cat. BM(NH), p. 367; neither in Stafleu and Cowan nor in Volbracht.