199. Mutis (Jose Celestino) and others. Flora de la Real Expedicion Botanica del Nuevo Reino de Granada, vol. 1, 2, 3 part 1 and 2, 4 part 1 and 2, 7, 9 part 3, 15 part 2, 27, 30, 31, 36, 44, 45 part 1, and 47, 16 vol. in all, limited to 2000 copies, 15 portraits on 8 plates, all but two coloured, 837 botanical plates, 677 printed in colour, the remainder in black or sepia, illustrations in text, the majority coloured, vol.1, 7, and 44 in original blind-tooled calf, the remainder in original half calf, large folio, Madrid, Ediciones Cultura Hispanica , 1954-89.
est. £600 – £800
The volumes of this ambitious project were published as soon as the contents were finalised, and the present series represents all that had been pubished up until 1989. The drawings produced during the expedition to Columbia between 1783 and 1816 are reproduced here for the first time.