Plantae Tinneanae sive descriptio plantarum in Expeditione tinneana ad flumen Bahr-el-Ghasal ejusque affluentias in Septentrionali inferioris Africae parte collectarum. = Plantes Tinnéennes ou description de quelques-unes des plantes recueillies par l'expédition Tinnéenne sur les bords du Bahr-El-Ghasal et de ses affluents en Afrique centrale.

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First and only edition of this splendidly produced work, with the text both in French and Latin. The present copy is the rare issue with the plates coloured. "This book gives the botanical results of a tragic journey of exploration up the White Nile made in 1861-64 by three courageous Dutchwomen, Mme. Henriette Louise Marie Tinne, her daughter Alexandrie P.F. Tinne and her sister Adrienne van Capellen. The two elder women, Henriette and Adrienne, died on the journey"(Great Flower Books p. 63). "From the end of January 1863 until mid-December, the Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne and the German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin carried out an expedition to the vast region of the Gazelle-river, a western tributary of the White Nile also known as the Bahr el-Ghazel (the Arabian name). Their private fortune enabled Alexine and her mother, Harriette Tinne-van Capellen, to prepare and maintain an expedition of immense proportions. No expense was spared. A steamboat was engaged together with transport vessels for the accompanying people, beasts of burden, and provisions, together forming a 'train' of more than 150 people, which after three months had increased to more than 550" (R.J. Willink , The fateful Journey p. 17). The book describes and portrays the plants collected by Alexine and Heuglin, some eighty samples were collected of which many new to science. The text was written by the well-known botanist Theodor Kotschy and J. Peyritsch. The work was financed by John Tinne and dedicated to Queen Sophie of the Netherlands. Only very few copies were published. Recently a book was published by Robert Joost Willink, 'The fateful journey. The expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864). A study of their travel accounts and ethnographic collections', by the Amsterdam University Press. Provenance: Bookplate of the botanical library of Christian Heuer. Nussen BBI 1059; Stafleu & Cowan 3894; Great Flower Books p. 63.