LEDEBOUR, Carl Friedrich (1785-1851). Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes. Riga: Deubner; London, Paris and Brussels: Treuttel and Würtz; Brussels: Librairie de Paris, 1829-1835.
LEDEBOUR, Carl Friedrich (1785-1851). Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes. Riga: Deubner; London, Paris and Brussels: Treuttel and Würtz; Brussels: Librairie de Paris, 1829-1835. Volumes 1-3 and 5 only (of 5), large 2 o (466 x 312 mm). 400 (of 500) hand-colored lithographed plates by W. Siegrist, Prestele and Schach after Bommer, Krüger, Müller, von der Pahlen and Scheffner. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (upper joint of first volume cracked, 2 volumes rebacked, some corners and spine ends repaired). FIRST EDITION. A VERY IMPORTANT RUSSIAN FLORA, printed and handcolored in exquisitie detail and rarely seen in color. Its celebrated predecessor, Pallas's Flora rossica (1784-1831), remained unfinished with a total of 126 of a projected 600 plates. Stafleu & Cowan did not see a colored copy of Ledebour. Ledebour (1785-1851) was a German botanist, born in Stralsund (then Swedish Pomerania). He travelled with Bunge and Mayer in Russia and the Altai region (Stafleu & Cowan). Dunthorne 179; Great Flower Books, p. 64; Nissen BBI 1155; Pritzel 5138; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4284. (4)
LEDEBOUR, Carl Friedrich (1785-1851). Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes. Riga: Deubner; London, Paris and Brussels: Treuttel and Würtz; Brussels: Librairie de Paris, 1829-1835.
LEDEBOUR, Carl Friedrich (1785-1851). Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes. Riga: Deubner; London, Paris and Brussels: Treuttel and Würtz; Brussels: Librairie de Paris, 1829-1835. Volumes 1-3 and 5 only (of 5), large 2 o (466 x 312 mm). 400 (of 500) hand-colored lithographed plates by W. Siegrist, Prestele and Schach after Bommer, Krüger, Müller, von der Pahlen and Scheffner. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (upper joint of first volume cracked, 2 volumes rebacked, some corners and spine ends repaired). FIRST EDITION. A VERY IMPORTANT RUSSIAN FLORA, printed and handcolored in exquisitie detail and rarely seen in color. Its celebrated predecessor, Pallas's Flora rossica (1784-1831), remained unfinished with a total of 126 of a projected 600 plates. Stafleu & Cowan did not see a colored copy of Ledebour. Ledebour (1785-1851) was a German botanist, born in Stralsund (then Swedish Pomerania). He travelled with Bunge and Mayer in Russia and the Altai region (Stafleu & Cowan). Dunthorne 179; Great Flower Books, p. 64; Nissen BBI 1155; Pritzel 5138; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4284. (4)
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