De distributione geographica plantarum secundum coeli temperiem et altitudinem montium. : Prolegomena

Title Variants

Alternative: De distributione geographica plantarum
Alternative: Distributione geographica plantarum

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: Auctarium animadversionum in quasdam plantarum tribus
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Lutetiae Parisiorum, In Libraria Graeco-Latino-Germanica, via dicta rue des Fossés-Montmartre, no 14, M. DCCC. XVII [1817]

Notes

Name of printer from verso of half-title leaf.

"E Typis J. Gratiot"-?-?Half-?title verso.

Corrigenda on p. [3]-[4] at end.

"Accedit tabula aenae".

"Auctarium animadversionum in quasdam plantarum tribus", pages [167]-247, has divisional title page.

Folded color plate: Iimage compares the plants found at comparable elevations on Chimborazo, Mont Blanc, and Sulitjelma in Norway.

Signatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) (pi2, pi3 versos blank) 1-15⁸ (11₃, 11₄ verso blank) 16⁸ (-16₈) (16₅ verso blank)

Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), | 3144

Errata: pages [4-5], 3rd count.

Arnold Arboretum. Library. Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, | p. 357

"Geographiae plantarum lineamenta", folded plate bound to follow page [5], 3rd count, is hand colored and drawn by Alexander von Humboldt in 1815 and engraved by L. Aubert. It shows the levels of mountainous vegetation in three climate zones.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), | 4328

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, | 33710

Subjects

Botany , Imprint 1817 , Phytogeography , Plantengeografie

Language

Latin

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/89460037
OCLC: 7192359