VVEDENSKY, A.I. Species of wild flowers of the USSR. Descriptive catalogue of bulbs and roots. Moscow: Lektechsyri Corporation. 1935.
8vo. Original string-bound cloth, gilt lettering on front; pp. 54, 40 colour plates, photographs; spine sunned, previosu owner's inscription to ffep, very good.
First edition. Alexei Ivanovitch Vvedensky (1898 - 1972) was a Russian botanist specialising in the allium and tulip genera who named 446 species. The Uzbekistan genus of flowering plant Vvedenkya is named in his honour. This is a very attractive and scarce guide to flowers from across the Soviet Union.
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