Bambuseas Monographice Exponit

Latin text. Second printing. Illustrated with six plain litho plates only of 18, (lacking 12 plates), slim quarto, pp (76), wide-margined and untrimmed, unopened, but rather foxed, paperback, covers rather worn. The plates at the end are loose and very foxed and stained. RARE. Stafleu & Cown 9793. THE FIRST WORLD-WIDE TAXONOMIC TREATMENT OF BAMBOOS. From the library of C.E. Hubbard, the fore-most grass taxonomist of the twentieth century, with his stamp on the front cover. Presented to Hubbard by the Russian botanist Pavel Smirnov, with signature on a tipped-in slip at the title page. (This part of the Memoires also includes a short section of Trinius' Genera Graminum. [Ruprecht was an Austro-Bohemian botanist. For much of his life he worked in St Petersburg, initially at the invitation of the agrostologist Trinius. During this time he also worked on the 'Tentamen Agrostographia Universalis'.].