BOTANICS - Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig. Germany's flora with highly naturalistic characteristic illustrations of all its plant species in natural size... as evidence for the Flora Germanica Excursoria. 23 parts in 10 text volumes and 25 parts in 23 atlas volumes. With over 3000 engraved plates. Plates. Leipzig, Fr. Hofmeister, A. Abdel and Gera, Fr. von Zezschwitz, Botanischer Verlag, 1837-1912. gr.-8°. Partly restored half leather volumes of the period with gilt stamped spine label (6 volumes with professionally repaired missing parts; somewhat rubbed and bumped, spine labels rubbed, partly with small missing parts, 1 volume with detached spine cover) and new half leather volumes in the style of the period (vol. 19.II text and atlas as well as atlas 24/25). Nissen BBI 1604 - Pritzel 7511 - German edition of the Icones florae germanicae et helveticae. Main work on the German plants and herbs by the botanist Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793-1879), which was published between 1837 and 1867 in deliveries and initially in 25 volumes - and then continued in further volumes until 1912 (!) (cf. Nissen). - Slightly browned, foxing (partly full-page and heavier). - Numerous annotations on endpapers. - Several volumes stamped "M. Schlieffen". - Not thoroughly collated, without right of return.