Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland

Monographie des melastomacées... melastomes [with ...rhexies]. Paris: Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande, 1816-1823

2 volumes in one, folio (530 x 335mm.), text in Latin and French, 120 (60 + 60) stipple-engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary brown calf-edged boards, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, sprinkled edges, pink endpapers, spotting, rebacked retaining original spine, hinges splitting

This bilingual text, complete wi📖th coloured plates of flowering plants, in a fine binding, continues Humboldt and Bonpland's famous series of their international botanical research.

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 51; Stafleu TL2 3142

PROVENANCE:

George Wilbraham (1779–1852), MP, FRS, of Delamere, Cheshire, armorial bookplate꧑; sold by Bernard Quaritch, pencil collation to rear endpaper