Flora Rossica seu stirpium Imperii Rossici per Europam et Asiam indigenarum descriptiones et icones. Volume 1. Part 1-2 (All published). 2 volumes.

St. Petersburg, J. J. Weitbrecht, 1774-88. Folio (498 x 305 mm). Additional hand-coloured lithographed title-page with dedication to Catherine II. 101 beutifully hand-coloured engraved plates by Karl Friedrich Knappe, numbered I-C with additional plate VIII B. The nomenclature of the plants in Latin and Russian. Original blue patterned paper boards. Red morocco lettering-pieces. Uncut. Joints and spines somewhat worn. First edition of the first great illustrated Russian flora. Complete with 101 engraved hand-coloured plates. Provenance: From the library of the Jussieu family and the library of Henry Rogers Broughton 2nd Baron Fairhaven..