[Rarebooks] FS: Velloso, FLORAE FLUMINENSIS

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Velloso, José Mariano da Conceição [or Vellozo]. 
FLORAE FLUMINENSIS SEU DESCRIPTIONUM PLANTARUM 
PRAEFECTURA FLUMINENSI SPONTE NASCENTIUM LIBER 
PRIMUS AD SYSTEMA SEXUALE CONCINNATUS. Flumine 
Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica, 1881. 
xii, [vii], 467, [1] pp. 4to. Maroon cloth with 
original yellow wrappers bound in.  Rodrigues 
2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 
1825 see: Barba de Moraes II, p. 343. Pritzel 
468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13, 
p.122. First complete edition. Published in 
Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. 
Volume V. 1880.

Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo 
Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore ... 
jubente, Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano 
a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta, 
descripta, et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. 
cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo 
etitur. Flumine Januario, A.D.M. DCCC. XXV, 
imperii IV.

José Xavier Veloso (1742-1811), born in what is 
now Minas Gerais, Brazil, was ordained in 1766 in 
the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro, 
where he studied philosophy and theology, later 
Geometry in San Paulo, and finally natural 
history. He collected plants, animals, and 
minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 
1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he 
worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while 
preparing Florae Fluminensis, his greatest work, 
for publication. Using the Linnaeus' system of 
sexual classification of plants, he prepared very 
highly detailed texts and 1700 prints, many of 
them of new species. But the publication of the 
work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice, 
the plates were never completed. Later the French 
invasion of the Iberian peninsular, sent the 
Portuguese government, then Veloso and his 
manuscripts, into exile in Brazil, where he died 
in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the 
text was published, followed by the eleven 
volumes of the Icones in 1827, of which few 
copies survive. The complete text was not 
published until this edition in 1881. A very good 
copy, wear to spine ends, a few small soiled 
spots on boards and original wrappers.  [35454] 
$950.00


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