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    Volume 3: Plates
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    05 September 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139649636
    9781108064491
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649636
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    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.67kg, 278 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, History of Science, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, History of Science, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    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. Volume 3 brings together all 261 line engravings from the volumes that accompanied the botanical catalogue.

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