THE CACTACEAE (4 Volumes)

Unabridged, unaltered republication of the 2nd (1937) edition. In Four Volumes bound as Two. Volume 1: vii + 236, Volume 2: vii + 241, Volume 3: vi + 258, Volume 4: 318 pages. Decorative cloth boards, more than 1200 b&w sketches, photographs, line drawings and plates, in protective plastic wrappers. Foxing on end pages and edges, outside corners slightly bumped, else very good.

From the sleeve: "Until the publication of this definitive four-volume work by Britton and Rose, no exhaustive study of the cactus family had ever been made. They devoted more than fifteen years to this monumental task, visiting nearly every region in the world where cati are known to grow... The results is an exhaustive, rigorously scientific account which has never been and is never likely to be superseded. The authors recognise three major classifications or tribes, of cacti, under which they arrange and describe in full detail 124 genera and 1235 species of cactus".