LE MAOUT, Emmanuel. Botanique, Organographie et taxonomie: histoire naturelle des familles végétales et des principales especes suivant la classification de M. Adrien De Jussieu avec l'indication de leur emploi dans les arts, les sciences et le commerce.
Paris, L. Curmer, 1852
A rare edition published in the collection: "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature - Règne Végétal" This important work discusses plants, describing their forms and functions, their affinities, their nomenclature, and their relationships with humans in agriculture, medicine, art, and industry.
4to; 270x180 mm. Publisher’s binding in full cloth with blind tooling on covers and decorated spine with gilt floral motifs. Pp. Pp. [4], XXVIII, 387, [1]. On the half-title: “Les trois regnes de la nature - Regne Vegetal”. 30 lithographic plates finely colored and 20 steel engravings in black and white o.t. In the text hundreds illustrations. Every colored plate is protected by tissue including the first plate in black and white which functions of frontispiece. Foxing.