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Lot 281: (BOTANICAL.) Blume, Carl Ludwig. Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis.
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Auction Title: MAPS & ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY, TRAVEL BOOKS
Auction Date: December 3, 2009, 1:30 PM EST
Description: (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
Estimated Price: $15,000 - $25,000
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Notes: 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.
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