Compendio de Botanica, de Brotero, 1788

Compendio de Botanica, de Brotero, 1788
BROTERO, Félix de Avelar.- Compendio de botanica, ou noções elementares desta sciencia, segundo os melhores escritores modernos, expostas na lingua portugueza.- Paris: Vende-se em Lisboa, em casa de Paulo Martins, mercador de livros, 1788.- 2 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E.
Félix de Avelar Brotero (1744-1828), a natural physician and botanist of Santo Antão do Tojal (Loures), a PhD at the University of Reims and between 1778 and 1790 was emigrated in Paris; after his return to Portugal he was appointed professor of Botany and Agriculture at the University of Coimbra and director of the Royal Museum and Botanical Garden of Ajuda. Pioneering work, considered a milestone in Portuguese scientific bibliography. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: I - LXXVI, 471, [1 br.] p.; II - 411, [5] p.: XXXI engravings. The first 76 p. of 1st volume are part of a preliminary Speech; the 31 copperplate prints, engraved and printed separately, each of them accompanied by the respective Exposition, are all well placed; at the end of the 2nd volume, the index and 4 p. of erratas of the two volumes. Both volumes present, on the title page, a small contemporary possession manuscript: JMSoares. A specimen with some browning, as usual, with entire sheepskin 19th-century bindings, slightly worn. Inocêncio, II, p. 261.