Iconographie descriptive des cactées -Ch.A.Lemaire

[Justin]

"Iconographie descriptive des cactées, ou, Essais systématiques et raisonnés sur l'histoire naturelle, la classification et la culture des plantes de cette famille" by Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800-1871) (a french botanist whose speciality was Cactaceae.)

A very rare old book about cacti, with only 11 copies on record, the book was billed, in 1987, as "the rarest work on cacti ever published".
Of course it is a book for those who love the old books. The book is bilingual, in Latin and in French.
A book for those who want to travel back in time in The World of Cacti. The book has nice plates for the cacti described and, of course, old book = old taxonomy.

The book can be PDF read or download here:

http://www.webcitation.org/63i52nAMh

- click on right side, up, on title tab "Iconographie descriptive des cactees"
- in menubar "Navigate through book" of new open webpage, click on "View in Botanicus" and use the keys to navigate for read or click on " Download " to open or save a PDF file in your computer.

[phil_SK]

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