Species Plantarum Secundum Vegetationis Et Fructificationis Partes Ad Vivum Delineatae Et

by Johann Gotthilf Muller Johann Bernhard Gottfried Hopfer

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Expertly bound to style in half calf and period speckled paper. Rare mid-18th century German botanical work. A very rare work, known in but a handful of surviving examples in German libraires with its original front wrapper not present here from which the above title is supplied. The work did not include any other letterpress text and was evidently the start of an intended larger work, which ceased publication following this first part. The plates are after

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