VERLOT, Bernard. - Les Plantes Alpines. Selection of the mos - Lot 97

VERLOT, Bernard. - Les Plantes Alpines. Selection of the most beautiful species. Description - Excursions - Cultivation - Use... Second edition - Paris, Rothschild, 1873 - Large in-8, 1 front, (3) ff, 320 pp, 50 color plates, 78 in-text engravings; bronze-green half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilded fillets, motifs and fleurons (period binding). Second edition dedicated to Joseph Decaisne, with 50 color plates showing the most beautiful mountain flowers, and 78 engravings in the text. The book covers the following subjects: Cultivation - Excursions (Le Mont-Viso, Le Lautaret, Cirque de Gavarnie, Pic de Belledone, Grande Chartreuse, Mont-Cenis, Mont-Blanc, Grands Mulets, Mont-Ventoux) - Harvesting, transport, multiplication and use - Selection of the most beautiful plants. A good copy, despite scattered foxing that barely affects the plates.