LABILLARDIÈRE, (JACQUES JULIEN HOUTTOU de). - A NEW GENUS OF PALMS.

Mémoire Sur un nouveau genre (l'Areng à sucre) de la famille des palmiers. Lu le 21 fructidor an 8 (1800).

(Paris, Baudouin, AN XI (1803)). 4to. Without wrappers. Uncut. Extracted from "Mémoires de L'Institut National des Sciences et Arts", Tome Quatrieme. Pp. 209-218 and 2 large folded engraved plates. (The plate depicting "Areng à Sucre" measuring 42x33 cm.). Clean and fine.

First printing of the first description of a new genus of palms, which he named it Arenga after the name Areng given to it in the Moluccas.
Labillardière was a French explorer and botanist, he travelled in the Near East in 1786 and he joined the expedition in search of La Perouse.

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