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Lot 175
[SPECIMEN ALBUM - HERBARIUM]. DUPOUX, Jacques. "Cahier de Botanique a Dupoux Jacques." Collected 1895-1896.
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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - HERBARIUM]. DUPOUX, Jacques. "Cahier de Botanique a Dupoux Jacques." Collected 1895-1896.
2 volumes, 4to (320 x 240 mm). Album of 943 plant specimens, most mounted 2-3 per page, each number in manuscript lower margin corresponding to a caption on the facing page providing the Latin name, location where the specimen was found, and medicinal properties. With manuscript tables at the end of each volume comprising some 20 pages. Original cloth-backed green boards (rubbed).
Including plant specimens which are classified by family, and which were mostly collected near Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule. Jacques Dupous was likely a student of pharmacy in the Allier region of France. This herbaria likely fulfilled a general requirement, providing the student of pharmacy a reference of medicinal plants in their area.
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum