[BOTANY & GARDENING -- MANUSCRIPTS]. A group of 5 manuscripts: "Cours de M. Bonnier...+ Cours de M. Vesque." Paris, 1894-1895. -- 5 documents and two manuscript plates hand-colored in wash. Prince Edward Island, 1830. -- And 3 others.
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[BOTANY & GARDENING -- MANUSCRIPTS]. A group of 5 manuscripts, comprising:
"Cours de M. Bonnier...+ Cours de M. Vesque." Paris, 1894-1895. 371 leaves, with an additional 24 blank leaves, 8vo. In French. Written in purple ink with red and blue crayon headings and rules, with in-text diagrams in ink. Bound in contemporary quarter morocco. Lecture notes with detailed diagrams. -- Martha von Hirsch's index: "Privater Botanischer=Garten." Basel, 1959. 67 typescript leaves, printed recto only, 19 lettered tab dividers, photographic diagram laid in. Bound in contemporary cloth. An index to the plants in the private botanic garden of Martha von Hirsch. -- "Corbularia bulbocodium." Diagram and descriptive text, on a bifolium. In French. Written in black ink. -- Autograph document signed ("Foucault"), n.p., n.d. Discussing naturalists. [With:] 5 documents and deeds relating to land, claims and decrees on Prince Edward Island. Accompanied by two manuscript plats hand-colored in wash. Prince Edward Island, 1830.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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