Annales des Sciences Naturelles comprenant la zoologie, la botanique, l'anatomie et la physiologie comparees des deux regnes, et l'histoire des corps organises fossiles. Botanique. Second through the Eleventh Series along with Volumes 1-5 of the Twelfth Series. Altogether 205 volumes.

3203 plates (236 are colored; most of the plates before 1900 are engraved; marginal tanning to many of the early plates; browning to a few plates; a handstamp to verso of many plates), 1 folding colored map, 2 portraits and numerous text-figures. 8vo, navy cloth on Series 2, 3 (1-8; 10-12), 4-7 (occasional foxing; dampstaining to text and/or plates of 7 volumes in 2nd Series; a tear to the head of 2 spines; a bump to the edge of pp. to a vol.; ex libris The Royal Society of London and Aquatic Research Institute; good), 3/4 calf on 8th Series and 9th Series, Vols. 1-17 (worn, chipped and with pieces missing; hinges cracked, but solid; 2 covers detached; fair to good), buckram on Series 9, Vols. 18, 19 & 20, Series 10, 11 & 12 (covers soiled; very good).

All of the great French botanists and many English botanists have papers or monographs appearing in this great periodical. A few of the works included are: THOUVENIN, M. "Recherches sur la structure des Saxifragacees," pp. 174; TRIANA, J. and J.E. PLANCHON. "Prodromus florae nova-granatensis," pp. 382 and 589; TIEGHEM, P.E.L. van and H.-L. DOULIOT. "Recherches comparatives sur l'origine des membres endogenes dans les plantes vasculaires...," pp. 660; SAPORTA, G. "Dernieres adjonctions a la flore fossile d'Aix-en-Provence...," pp. 60, 104, 192; RUBY, J. "Recherches Morphologiques et Biologiques et Biologiques sur l'Olivier et sur les Varieties cultivees en France," pp. 286; SIMONET, M. "Nouvelles Recherches Cytologiques et Genetiques Chez les Iris," pp. 229-383; BERSILLON, G. "Recherches sur les Papaveracees," pp. 225-448. ***Shipping will be extra.***

Publisher Information: Paris: Various publishers, 1834-1963.

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