Botany.- Portugal.- Hoffmannsegg (Johann Centurius) and H.F.Link. Flore Portugaise ou Description de Toutes les Plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal, 22 parts in 3 vol., lithograph title, 3 'Planche d'Instruction' plates, 100 plates only (of 111), of which 2 are hand-coloured lithographs, and 98 stipple-engravings, of which 93 printed in colour and finished by hand, 8ff. and vol.2 pp.437-504 lacking, a few plates trimmed touching or with loss to imprint or plate number, lithograph title and few plates loose or becoming so, some foxing, largely to text, modern panelled calf tooled in blind, some discolouration to spines, a little rubbed, [Stafleu & Cowan 2911], folio, Berlin, 1809-[1840].

⁂ One of the most complete copies text-wise, to come onto the market. It lacks 11 plates but has more text than the Kenneth K. Mackenzie-Horticultural Society of New York-Robert de Belder copy (Christie's New York 4 June 1997), which was the most complete copy to come on the market in decades. A rare technical and artistic botanical work which has escaped the notice of historians of botanical illustrations. It was produced by Count Hoffmannsegg, a contemporary of Redouté, whose work it rivals. In our opinion it surpasses the latter's 'Jardin de la Malmaison', perhaps technically the finest of Redouté's oeuvres.

Volume 2 is so rare that Stafleu and Cowan leave open the collation for parts 17-21. This copy lacking plates: 24, 26, 65, 68, 74, 75, 77, 83, 98, 99 and 101.