Brutelle, Charles-Louis L'Heritier de
Title Sertum Anglicum 1788. Facsimile with Critical Studies and a Translation.
Binding Hardcover with marbled boards.
Book Condition Good
Edition . Limited edition to 2000 copies.
Publisher The Hunt Botanical Library : 1963.
0913196045 / 9780913196045
Seller ID 2133cc
34 black and white single and double page illus. 36 pp text facsimile of 1788 publication, 98 pp text of explanation of abbreviations, English translation, the plants of…., the man and his work. IN English and Latin." Sertum Anglicum was chosen for the first publication in this series because it met several requirements; it is rare, since fewer than one hundred copies are believed to be published; taxonomically of considerable importance, since in it were described thirteen new genera and sixty-five new species; it is illustrated by Pierre Joseph Redoute and James Sowerby."