Lot n° 634
Estimation :
200 - 300
EUR
China - Cochinchina - Lot 634
China - Cochinchina
LOUREIRO (João de)
Flora Cochinchinensis : sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi Imperio, Africa Orientali, Indiae... Ulyssipone (Lisbon), typis academicis, 1790.
2 volumes in-4.
½ marbled pastiche fawn calf, ornate ribbed spines, brown title-pieces and tomaisons; red heads.
First edition. Loureiro (1717-1791), a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, established and described many new genera and plants on the flora of southern Indochina and Vietnam.
He was not a professional botanist, but had acquired good botanical knowledge and compiled a good herbarium of around 1,000 species.
One of the most important contributions to the flora of eastern Southeast Asia and southern China.
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