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Casuarinaceae - Casuarina stricta
- Casuarina quadrivalvis From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 299 + 300. Hand-coloured engravings after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). € 135
"Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest
botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In
particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..."
(Blunt). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most
important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century.
In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates
by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured.* Pritzel 10.722; Blunt p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 & 15.384. www.meemelink.com | index | Casuarinaceae |