FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE FLORA OF MOROCCO

SCHOUSBOE, P.K.A. - FLORA OF MOROCCO.

Iagttagelser over Vextriget i Marokko. Förste Stykke (all issued).

(Copenhagen, 1800).

4to. Uncut without wrappers as issued in "Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". 204 pp. and 7 large folded engraved plates. 

First edition of the first systematic description of the flora of Morocco. Schousboe was Danish consul-general in Morocco, and sponsored by the Dane Johann v. Bülow, he travlled round Morocco in the years 1791-93 to describe the flora. The catalogue descibes the plants in Danish and Latin. The work was translated the year after into German and many years later into French (1874). - Pritzel: 8343. - Jackson p. 351 (The French edition).

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