{"product_id":"flora-atlantica-volume-1-sive-historia-plantarum-quae-in-atlante-agro-tunetano-et-algeriensi-crescunt-paperback-9781108064323","title":"Flora atlantica: Volume 1; Sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108064323","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFlora atlantica: Volume 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 1800 second edition of a Latin botanical catalogue of North Africa, reissued with two illustrated volumes combined into one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRené Louiche Desfontaines (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108064323, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 September 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e478 pages\u003cbr\u003e29.7 x 21 x 2.4 cm, 1.14 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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. Volume 1 contains the first thirteen classes of plants in the Linnaean system of taxonomy, from Monandria to Polyandria.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePraefatio\u003cbr\u003e Explicatio tabularum\u003cbr\u003e Monandria\u003cbr\u003e Diandria\u003cbr\u003e Triandria\u003cbr\u003e Tetrandria\u003cbr\u003e Pentandria\u003cbr\u003e Hexandria\u003cbr\u003e Octandria\u003cbr\u003e Enneandria\u003cbr\u003e Decandria\u003cbr\u003e Dodecandria\u003cbr\u003e Icosandria\u003cbr\u003e Polyandria.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266149437720,"sku":"9781108064323","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108064323i_013e358c-fb84-4638-afd1-a2d47fa1c9e1.jpg?v=1696748520","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/flora-atlantica-volume-1-sive-historia-plantarum-quae-in-atlante-agro-tunetano-et-algeriensi-crescunt-paperback-9781108064323","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}