Dec 03, 2009 - Sale 2198

Sale 2198 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 10,800
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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
(BOTANICAL.) Blume, Carl Ludwig. Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis. 3 frontispieces, 210 plates, most hand-colored, including many folding [complete]. 4 volumes in 3. Folio, 430x275 mm, early 1/2 morocco, rubbed; scattered minor foxing throughout, though most plates are bright and clean. Leiden, Amsterdam, and Brussels, 1835-48
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Issued to supplement Blume's Flora Javae. The title is an homage to Georg Eberhard Rumpf, a pioneering botanist in the East Indies. Nissen, Botany 178.