Paris, P. J. Loss, 1841. xii, 403 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Late 19th century half cloth over marbled boards (rubbed, discoloured and 1 corner bumped). Scattered foxing and/or browning throughout the volume (a common with French publication of this period).
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** First edition of the first important manual for plant teratology. A German translation was published as "Pflanzen-Teratologie. Lehre von dem regelwidriger Wachen und Bilden der Pflanzen. Mit Zustzen von J.K. Schauer" Being the second volume of Nees von Esenbeek's Handbuch der Pflanzen Pathologie... (Berlin, 1842). Moquin-Tandon, physician, zoologist and botanist will be best remembered as a malacologist, although he was one of the founder of modern phyto-teratology. Stafleu & Cowan; 6286, BM(NH), III, 1346; Pritzel, 6412.
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