370 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



careful examination by one of the first botanists of the 

 age, Prof. Wildenow, are computed to amount to fourteen 

 or fifteen hundred, but also the interesting observations 

 mack- by M. Bonpland on plants hitherto imperfectly de- 

 scribed. The plates of this work are all engraved ac- 

 cording to the method followed by M. Labillardiere, in the 

 Specimen Plantarum Kovce JFIollandke, a work remark- 

 able for profound research and clearness of arrange- 

 ment." 



The publication of these immense works is an epoch 

 in the history of bibliography. To give some idea of the 

 amount of money that was expended upon them we will 

 give a list of the prices at which they were published. 

 Many of them, we should premise, particularly the folios, 

 were brought out as separate pamphlets, or in numbers, 

 on different kinds of paper, and at different prices. We 

 shall enumerate the latter only, as we write for general 

 rather than bibliographical readers. 



Voyage to the Equinoctial Regions. There are two 

 editions of this work, one in quarto, in three volumes, 

 another in octavo, in thirteen volumes. The former was 

 published at one hundred and fifty-eight francs, (large 

 paper copies two hundred and fifty-two francs,) the latter 

 at ninety francs. The six Atlases which accompany the 

 work cost two hundred and sixteen francs. 



The Picturesque Atlas. Published in folio, at five 

 hundred and four francs, (large paper copies, five hun- 

 dred and seventy-six francs,) and in octavo, at twenty- 

 five francs. 



Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. There 

 are three editions of this work ; one in quarto in two 

 volumes, with a folio Atlas, published at two hundred 



