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First edition. Octavo. three of nine fascicles (I-III). Comprising numbers No. 1 - 75 (but without sheets 16, 20, 27, 31, 34, 36, 72). With 152 of 157 dried specimens mouted on sheets, each sheet with a printed placard giving names and locations. Each fascicle with a printed title page, a list of contenets and loose sheets bearing the specimens. In the publisher?s cloth over marbled boards porfolios with original ties present, printed paper spine labels. A decidedly rare publication with only one located on OCLC and only one (this one) at auction.Pierre Tranquille Husnot (1840-1929) was a prominent bryologist as well as being a farmer and mayor of Cahan. He traveled between 1860 and 1876 in England, the West Indies, the Canaries, France. He botanizes in the Pyrenees, the Jura, the Alps . Founder of Bryological Review in 1874, he was the editor until 1928, when he gives the load to Pierre Allorge, then to the Museum. Husnot published in 1890 a flora of Bryophytes of France, "Muscologia gallica - Descriptions and figures of mosses of France and neighboring countries", still used today. Seller Inventory # 74387
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Title: Hepaticae Galliea: Herbier des Hepatiques de...
Publisher: Athis [ca. 1890], Cahan [France}
Publication Date: 1890
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