‎PLESCH Arpad ( ) :‎
‎Mille et Un Livres Botaniques de la Collection Arpad Plesch. Répertoire Bibliographique. Catalogue Raisonné....‎

‎ Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973, thick in-4°, 520 pp with 34 full page tipped-in coloured ills., and monochrome ills. in the text (mostly facsimiles).Publisher's cloth with dustwrapper in an original green cloth slipcase , mint copy. This is the catalogue of Arpad Plesch's collection of botanical books. The collection was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1975-76 (Stiftung für Botanik) but only 863 items were so dispersed. This Plesch catalogue contains many more items and descriptions. Many of the extremely rare books were bought by Robert de Belder, whose collection was also auctioned by Sotheby's in 1987.‎

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