A botanist's map of Tenerife

BERTELOT, Sabin.

Carte Phytostatique de L'Ile de Ténériffe levée par S. Berthelot, Paris, 1835.
Paris, 1835-50. Lithograph with original hand colour. Printed area 440 x 515mm.

Small split in bottom margin of centre fold. Wide margins.

A map dividing Tenerife into six zones affecting the type of plants that could grow in each, published in 'L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries' (1835-50), written by Frenchman Sabin Berthelot and English botanist Philip Barker-Webb.


Stock ID : 18450