[NATURAL HISTORY]. WEDDELL, Hugh Algernon (1819-1877). Histoire Naturelle des Quinquinas, ou Monographie du Genre Chinchona, suivie d'une Description du Genre Cascarella et de quelques autres Plantes de la meme Tribu. Paris: Victor Masson, 1849.

Folio. Engraved frontispiece, map outlined in color, 32 lithographed plates, 3 colored. Original cloth-backed printed boards (spotting and soiling to covers).

FIRST EDITION. Weddell travelled for five years in Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia, identifying fifteen different species of "fever-bark," from which quinine is obtained. He brought back specimens for the Jardin des Plantes, from which chinchona forests were established in the East Indies. Nissen BBI 2123.

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