61 - 2 - [Botany] [Oceania] Part of the personal herbarium of Count J…
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000

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[Botany] [Oceania] Part of the personal herbarium of Count JAUBERT. Ca. 1839 - 1867. Wooden box containing 134 plates in 19 blue paper folders. Each plate contains the place and date of collection as well as the scientific name of the specimen, two with seed pouch. This herbarium mainly concerns New Caledonia but also the Aukland and Campbell Islands - L'Hermite Islands - Falkland Islands - Sandwich Islands - Saint Helena - Borneo - Tahiti - Marquesas Islands - Kerguelen. It was mainly collected by the botanist Eugène Vieillard (1819 - 1896) during exploration campaigns (1855 - 1860 and 1861 - 1867) "Employed as a marine doctor on a merchant ship from 1854 to 1857, E. Vieillard collected plants in Tahiti with Jean Armand Isidore Pancher. In 1861, he travelled to New Caledonia, calling at the Cape of Good Hope, Reunion Island, Sydney and New Zealand. From 1862 to 1867, he explored New Caledonia, where his work had taken him, and planted trees with the naturalist Émile Deplanche. He had a large plant collection: nearly 12,000 specimens, which he took back to France to distribute to European botanists". Wikipedia. Most of the specimens are well preserved, despite their fragility.

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61 - 2 - [Botany] [Oceania] Part of the personal herbarium of Count J… See original version (French)

61 - 2 - [Botany] [Oceania] Part of the personal herbarium of Count J…
See original version (French)