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Published by C.A. Retzel, Copenhagen 1893
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contemporary half tree calf. Condition: fine. first. Meddelelser om Groenland. Tredie Hefte. [Conspectus Florae Groenlandicae autore Joh. Lange. Oversigt over Groenlands Flora]. Copenhagen. C.A. Retzel. 1880-1893. thick8vo., 22cm, first editions, l, 1016 pp., with 6 folding maps, 2 plates, text figures, part indexes, in contempo…rary half tree calf, raised gilt decorated bands, matched marbled boards and edges, floral decorated endpapers, typed contents leaf tipped-in, fine. Text in Danish. "Monographs of Greenland". A collection of writings on the flora of Greenland. Parts I & II: Flowering plants and ferns. (Lange, 1880/1887). Part III: Various essays on vascular plants and ferns of Greenland (Branth, Rostrup, Kolderup, Groenlund. 1887-1893). Danish botanist Johann Lang (1818-1898) was Director of the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen and edited "Flora Danica" from 1858 to 1883. An seminal work from the library, with stylized bookplate, of Danish botanist, Morton P. Porsild (1872-1956) who worked most of his life in Greenland. The very useful contents leaf tipped-in is thought to be by Porsild.
