Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia 1896-1899. Volume VIII, 1-2. Botany. I-IX. [Complete].

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, [AND] Stuttgart, Schweizerbart (E. Nägele), 1903-1906. Nine parts (two volumes) in three. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.1 cm). 982 pp.; 106 text figures, 31 lithographed plates, of which several in chromolithography. Uniform early 20th-century pebbled black half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spines. = A rarely seen complete set of the botany (well-illustrated, and with many new species) of an expedition to the southernmost part of South America. Publication was supported by the J. Pierpont Morgan Publication Fund. It includes nine papers, by P. Dusén, The vegetation of western Patagonia and Patagonian and Fuegian Mosses; A. W. Evans Hepaticae collected in southern Patagonia; and G. Macloskie, Ferns and fern-like plants of Patagonia; Flora Patagonia; Analysis of orders and families; Collectors and bibliography; Topography; and Character and origin of the Patagonian Flora. Neatly bound. In the top margin of the front free endpapers an erasure; the word "Genootschap" handwritten in the top margin of the title pages; slight foxing to the top margin of a few leaves; small bump in the last few text leaves and plates of the third part, otherwise a very good, clean set. Stafleu and Cowan, 5190.