Crassulacearum Icones Selectae (vols. 1, 3, 4 and 5 )

Vols 1, 3, 4 & 5 of 5. Each fascicle comprises 20 loose (unbound) b&w plates with deckled fore-edges and untrimmed top and bottom edges. The plates comprise of drawings by Raymond-Hamet of the whole or parts of plants in the Crassulaceae family, with the exception of volume 5 which lacks plate 100. Each volume of plates sits inside a wrap of matching card. Incl. plates 1-20 & 41-99, more details of which can be found here: https://www.crassulaceae.ch/docs/6524d8f3ac9292878c47841e5d21796f_Crassulaceaearum%20Icones%20Selectae.pdf

Overall Very Good. Photos available on request. Very scarce.

During a diverse research and professional career, Raymond-Hamet (1890–1972) was, inter alia, an international expert on the genus Kalanchoe Adans (Crassulaceae). At the age of 15 he published his first new species of Kalanchoe, and at the age of 18 he had already published a comprehensive revision of the genus, replete with the citation of virtually all the literature available on the genus at the time, as well as a voluminous exsiccata held by and derived from numerous herbaria. Over a period of 57 years Raymond-Hamet described and reclassified more than 60 species of Kalanchoe, mostly from Madagascar but some also from other parts of the world, and additionally proposed several new names in the genus that were later validly published by other researchers. [Courtesy of www.https://bioone.org/. where an analysis and appreciation of Raymond-Hamet’s work on Kalanchoe, including of the species he described and reclassified in the genus are provided, can be found.]