Author: Durand, T. [A.] and H. Durand
Title: Sylloge florae Congolanae (Phanerogamae).
Description: Bruxelles, Albert de Boeck, 1909. Large 8vo (25.6 x 17.3 cm). 716 pp. Original printed cloth. = An important study on the botany of former Belgian Congo or Zaire (= Demogratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo Kinshasa), which received the prestigious "Prix Émile Laurent" of the Académie royale de Belgique. Writen by the Belgian botanist Théophile Alexis Durand (1855-1912) and his daughter and fellow botanist, Hélène Durand (1883-1934). Signed by a former private owner on the title page; some damp-staining to the front board. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Originally bound copies, such as this one, are rarely seen. Stafleu and Cowan, 1595.

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