Notice biographique sur pierre-remy willemet.
Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels].
[s.n.], 1808.
First edition.
8vo.
20pp. Uncut and unopened. Sewn, as issued, in original publisher's buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp.
The sole edition, in original state, of a succinct biography of French natural historian Pierre Remi Willemet (1735-1808), sometime professor of botany and chemistry at the Collége de Médecine of Nancy, who undertook expeditions to Sri Lanka, Africa, and Madagascar in order to study pharmaceutical plants.
£ 250.00
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