SERTUM ANGOLENSE

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 27, part 1. 1869

94 pages of letterpress and 25 uncoloured lithographic plates.

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Ficalho (Porf. Count) & Hiern (W.P.) ON CENTRAL AFRICAN PLANTS COLLECTED BY MAJOR SERPA PINTO

Second Series. Botany, vol 2, part 1, 1881

[11] - 36 pages of letterpress and 4 uncoloured lithographic plates.

Quarter brown morocco titled gilt on the spine, marbled paper sides, a very good copy in a slip case.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Welwitsch) Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant Welwitschia mirabilis. His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii ……..After eight strenuous years of exploring and collecting, Welwitsch returned to Portugal in 1861. Because of better working conditions, he went to London in 1863. There, he worked at first at the Natural History Museum and later at the Kew Gardens, categorising and cataloguing its enormous collection. In the publication Sertum Angolense, he described 12 new categories and 48 new species.