Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei. An Illustration of the sexual system of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897) was

James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897) was an American botanist and mycologist graduated from Harvard University

(plates): 200 chromolithographs

antique marbled endpapers

25 x 9 inches)

Publisher’s printed pale green front wrapper mounted on later white wrappers

Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei. An Illustration of the sexual system of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897) wasPp. (120), engraved emblematic frontispiece, engraved title, subscribers list, with 108 fine hand colored engraved plates heightened with gum Arabic (4 hand colored engraved plates of leaf shapes + 104 hand colored engraved plates of flowers) and 108 uncolored plates printed in black (all plates in this work appear in two states, one state is hand colored and the other is monochrome). Bound to style by the Studio Bindery of Kingston on Thames, Surrey,