Autor:Title / Designation: HOFFMANSEGG, Comte de; LINK, Johann Heinrich Friedrich.- Flore portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement au Portugal, avec figures coloriées, cinq planches de terminologie et une carte.- À Berlin: de l’Imprimerie de Charles Fréderic Amelang et se trouve chez les Aureurs...- 1809-[1834].- 2 vols.: 1 atlas com 111, 3 (i.e 90, 2) gravuras; 57 cm.- B. The German botanists Johann Centurius Hoffmann, Count of Hoffmansegg (1766-1849) and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851) were in Portugal between 1797 and 1801 (stays not entirely coincident), having studied the Portuguese flora in depth and exhaustively. In addition to this edition, the two scientists also published a famous travel book, in three volumes, which came to rehabilitate the image of Portugal in the eyes of Europe (Kiel, 1801-1804), promptly translated into English and French. An incomplete copy, like most of the copies that have appeared on the market, in paperback (loose sections and engravings), preserving the covers of the fascicles, as it was published, of a monumental enterprise that, for more than a century, became the main work reference on this topic. The collation of the two volumes should be as follows. Volume I: [8], 458 p., engrav. 1 a 70; volume II: [4], 436 p.: engrav. 71-109, [2, 3] engrav.. ; 52 cm. Copy missing engravings 20, 24, 26, 33, 65, 68, 70, 73 a 77, 80, 83, 84, 85, 98 to 101 and 108a (numbered from 1 to 109, with two engravings with nº 90 (a and b) and two with nº 108 (a and b); the first of three finals is still missing “planches d’instruction” and a lithographed title at the beginning of volume I that appears in some copies. Volume II is missing eight pages of text: sections 77 to 80, corresponding to pages. 305 to 320. The engravings, copperplate opened, using the stipple technique, by several engravers, according to originals by G. W. Voelker and J. C. Hoffmann himself, were printed in colour, which makes the work the first to be printed in Germany, by this process. The two volumes of text, with some browning, preserve 27 covers of the respective fascicles, some with the numbering changed manually; the prints (in a total of 90 +2), also loose, retain a single cover. The set is packed in a modern protective box covered with fabric. Dunthorne 136. Great Flower Books, p. 59. Nissen BBI, 901. Stafleu & Cowan 2911.