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RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL. Prodrome d'un monographie des Rosiers de l'Amérique spetentrionale... [With]: A Series of papers published in the Annales Generales des Sciences Physiques... Brussels, 1820. 35 papers in one vol., 8vo, 215 x 138 mm., later half morocco, upper cover detached. Lithographed portrait and 14 lithographed plates (including 5 colored, 2 partially colored). Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8574 (for the first 3 Rafinesque papers). Of the 35 papers, 16 are by Rafinesque, the others are by a variety of authors. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- RAFINESQUE. Neogenyton, or Indication of Sixty-Six new Genera of Plants of North-America... Lixington, 1825. 8vo, 228 x 143 mm., later half morocco. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8578. Conservatoire Botanique de Genéve, ink stamp; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- RAFINESQUE. Medical Flora... Philadelphia, 1828-30. 2 vols., 8vo, 200 x 115 mm., later half morocco, joints worn. FIRST EDITION, 100 plates of woodcuts printed in green ink. Sabin 67457; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8579. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- RAFINESQUE. New Flora of North America... Neobotanon. Philadelphia, 1836. Part IV (of 4 only), 8vo, 236 x 153 mm., original printed wrappers, uncut, slight soiling. The title page for part IV serves as the title for the entire work. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8586 -- RAFINESQUE. Flora Telluriana. Philadelphia, 1836. Part I (of 4 only), 8vo, 235 x 141 mm., original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, spine repaired. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8587 -- RAFINESQUE. The Ancient Monuments of North and South America... Philadelphia, 1838. 8vo, 228 x 139 mm., wrappers, chipped. Second edition. Sabin 67443 -- RAFINESQUE. Manuel of the Medical Botany of the United States; containing a description of fifty-two Medical Plants... Philadelphia, 1841. 12mo, contemporary sheep, spine tape repaired. 52 colored engraved plates. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8579. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- RAFINESQUE. Ichthyologia Ohiensis or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Streams... and the Ichthyologic Bibliography of Rafinesque by Richard Ellsworth Call. Cleveland, 1899. 8vo, 240 x 158 mm., contemporary cloth. Limited Edition, number 89 of 250 copies, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Call on verso front free endpaper -- RAFINESQUE. Autikon Botanikon... [A typescript copy]. Philadelphia, 1840 [but 1932]. 4to, 280 x 215 mm., wrappers, defective, marginal chipping. The copy has a typescript explanatory leaf (dated March 15, 1932) contributed by E.D. Merrill the editor of the facsimile edition, of the work which was published in 1942. According to Merrill, the copy "was prepared from the complete copy in the library of the New York Botanical Garden... the original pages are always indicated... no illustrations were ever prepared; it was the intention of Rafinesque that 'figures' should take the form of dried boanical specimes...". See Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8592 -- CALL, RICHARD ELLSWORTH. The Life and Writings of Rafinesque. Louisville, 1895. 4to, 300 x 227 mm., buckram. (11)