Flora atlantica 3 Volume Set
Sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt

The 1800 second edition of a Latin botanical catalogue of North Africa, reissued with two illustrated volumes combined into one.

René Louiche Desfontaines (Author)

9781108064507, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 5 September 2013

1224 pages
27 x 21 x 6.8 cm, 2.8 kg

A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent the years 1783–5 on an expedition to North Africa. During his time in Tunisia and Algeria, he collected over a thousand plant specimens: more than three hundred genera were new to European naturalists at this time. Having succeeded Le Monnier in the chair of botany at the Jardin du Roi in 1786, Desfontaines helped found the Institut de France following the Revolution and published his two-volume Flora atlantica in Latin in 1798–9. A lavishly illustrated second edition appeared in four volumes in 1800. Combining its two volumes of plates into one, this reissue will give modern researchers an insight into the promulgation of pioneering plant science. Volumes 1 and 2 contain the twenty-four classes of plants in Linnaean taxonomy, while Volume 3 brings together the 261 line engravings.

Volume 1: Praefatio
Explicatio tabularum
Monandria
Diandria
Triandria
Tetrandria
Pentandria
Hexandria
Octandria
Enneandria
Decandria
Dodecandria
Icosandria
Polyandria. Volume 2: Didynamia
Tetradynamia
Monadelphia
Diadelphia
Polyadelphia
Syngenesia
Gynandria
Monoecia
Dioecia
Polygamia
Cryptogamia
Appendix
Addenda et emendanda
Index generum
Emendanda. Volume 3: Plates 1-261.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]