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Ixia : quam dissertatione botanica delineatam, cons. experient. Fac. Med. Upsal. præside Carol. P. Thunberg ...

Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828, praeses · 1783 · Upsaliæ : Typis Johan. Edman, direct. et Reg. Acad. typogr. · 2 pictures

A 1783 Latin botanical dissertation on the genus Ixia, printed at Uppsala under Carl Peter Thunberg for medical students and botanists, with engraved plates of plant species. The pictures are precise copperplate botanical studies of slender flowering stems with bulb-like roots, labelled in Latin, showing how a designer might draw clear specimen diagrams with annotated captions and small-scale arrangements of several plants on a page.

Iridaceae · Iridaceae -- Early works to 1800

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