Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei. An Illustration of the sexual system of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus 25 x 9 inches)

25 x 9 inches)

over original dark blue leather-covered boards patterned in the shape of scales from butterfly wings

James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897) was an American botanist and mycologist graduated from Harvard University

See also Pritzel 6933

Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei. An Illustration of the sexual system of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus 25 x 9 inches)Pp. (120), engraved emblematic frontispiece, engraved title, subscribers list, with 108 fine hand colored engraved plates heightened with gum Arabic (4 hand colored engraved plates of leaf shapes + 104 hand colored engraved plates of flowers) and 108 uncolored plates printed in black (all plates in this work appear in two states, one state is hand colored and the other is monochrome). Bound to style by the Studio Bindery of Kingston on Thames, Surrey,