Madrid, Eusebio Aguado, 1867. 8vo (20.2 x 14.3 cm). 379 [119; 260] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt ornaments, title gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red.

Rare, annotated list of the Iberian ferns, liverworts, horsetails, mosses, fungi, lichens, algae, etc. with many references. Some names may be new. Written by Don Miquel Colmeiro y Penido (1816-1901) who also published the La Botanica y los Botanicos de la Peninsula Hispano-Lusitano in 1858, and became the first president of the Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. This copy is probably a set of two offprints from the Revista. Prog. Ciencias, Tomos [Volumes] XVI and XVII, with new titles and pagination. Bookplate "Toujours le même", of G. Colin Tait. Previous owner's names in right top corner of title page, a few, light pencil annotations (probably by Tait), otherwise a fine clean copy of this little-known work. Cat. BM(NH), p. 367; neither in Stafleu and Cowan nor in Volbracht.