Author: Boulay, J.N.
Title: Flore Pliocène du Mont-Dore (Puy de Dôme) avec dix planches lithographées, de nombreuses figures dans le texte des appendices et notes diverses.
Description: Paris, F. Savy, 1892. Folio (35.1 x 27.4 cm). 115 pp., 21 text figures, ten lithographed plates and two photographic plates (slightly smaller format). Contemporary blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. In protective transparent sleeve. = A well-illustrated work with new taxa. Rare. We never had this work before. Signed by the author on the half title. "Abbé" Jean Nicolas Boulay (1837-1905) was a French clergyman, botanist, palaeontologist and professor at the university of Lille. He was an authority of French mosses and fossil plants. The two smaller plates are "numbered" A and B, and are not mentioned in the title. A few pencilled annotations. Most plates foxed, in particular in the margins; repair to last text leaf, otherwise a good copy. Cat. BM(NH) vol. 1, p. 212. Neither in Nissen nor in Stafleu and Cowan.

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