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LINNAEUS, Carolus (1707-1778) : Système des Plantes, contenant les Classes, Ordres, Genres et Espèces; les Caractères naturels essentiels des Genres; les phrases caractéristiques des Espèces [...] Extrait et traduit des Ouvrages de Linné, par M.J.P. Mouton-Fontenille [...]

Lyon: Bruyset aîné et Buynand, An XII 1804 - An XIII - 1805.

4 volumes, 8vo, 20.8cm. Vol. 1: pp. lxxx,532, engraved title with vignette and engraved frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus by C. Boilly; vol. 2: pp. [iv],467; vol. 3: pp. [iv],648; vol. 4: pp. [iv],518. Contemp. boards, backstrips with rich gilt decoration and gilt-lettered red title labels. Age wear to edges and corners of binding and to ends of backstrips, and to decoration of two backstrips, contents clean and fine. - Without the concluding 5th volume which however contains no actual text but only "Série des Tables". - Soulsby 14. Stafleu & Cowan 6383 (variant issue). - The lengthy title text continues: "La citation des meilleures Figures; le Climat au lieu naturel des Plantes; l'époque de leur flleuraison; leurs propriétés et leurs usages dans les Arts, dans l'Economie rurale et la Médecine." The translator and editor Marie Jacques Philippe Mouton-Fontenille de La Clotte (1769-1837) was professor of natural history at the Académie de Lyon and later Keeper of the town museum of Lyon. The work comprises a translation of the "Genera Plantarum" of 1778 and of the "Systema plantarum" of 1779 and many learned bnotes by the translator. "The treatment is heavily based on Linnaeus but contains so much material supplied by Mouton-Fontenille that the latter can be treated as the author" (Stafleu & Cowan). An uncommon edition.

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