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Rio de Janeiro: Editora Scart, 2008. [Brazilian Botany] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.541 [3]. With 14 double-sided colour illustrated plates, including photographs by Izabel Moura Miller, drawings by Helmut Seehawer, as well as frequent in-text diagrams, photographs, and maps. Also with six colour botanical illustrations by Álvaro Pessanha. Styled '19th Edition' to copyright page at rear. With the errata sheet loose at rear. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards, with red endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. Chiefly concerning the orchids of the southern Brazilian mountain range. Item #60207
Price: £75.00