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    BARBOSA RODRIGUES, Joao (1842-1909).

    Editore: Brussels: Imprimerie Typographique Veuve Monnom, 1903., 1903

    Da: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

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    2 volumes. Folio (23 4/8 x 16 inches). Half-titles. Photogravure portrait mounted on India paper, lithographic facsimile of autographs by 24 members of 2nd 'Congres Cientifico Latino Americano', and 174 chromolithographic plates (light browning and spotting throughout, one leaf to volume one pp.xxix-[xxx] loose and frayed at fore-edge, half-title, title and part-title to volume II and a number of plates to both volumes with old cloth tape re-inforcement at gutter, plates 35-50 to volume one with tiny marginal tears at top-edge near gutter). Original dark-brown cloth grained in imitation crocodile skin, the upper covers with large inset red cloth panels, decoratively blocked in gilt in art nouveau style by Francois Wissaert of Brussels, red morocco gilt spine labels, decorative endpapers (extremities rubbed, red cloth panels lightly stained and soiled, panel to volume II starting to lift, spine labels defective). Provenance: Joao I. Das Dores (Brazilian bookbinder's tickets to front pastedowns) -- [Clemente Gomes (from his library at Vargem Grande, designed by Roberto Burle-Marx, landscape architect)], sold Christies June 2011. First edition, also issued loose in green imitation crocodile skin portfolios. The author travelled widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897, pursuing anthropological interests and assembling a large collection of botanical specimens, mainly orchids. He became director of the Manaos botanical museum in 1883, and director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro in 1889. Some of the plates to "Sertum palmarum Brasilien" show figures of Amazonian tribesmen and natural landscapes, others have detailed botanical insets of the leaves and fruits. Arnold Arboretum p.58; BM(NH) VI, p.57; Nissen BBI 1660; Stafleu & Cowan 9358. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.