Baierische Reise

by Franz von Paula Schrank

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First edition

Engraved frontis. port. of the author, two folding engraved plates numbered “I” and “III” , & two folding printed tables. 7 p.l., 276 pp., one leaf of errata. 8vo, cont. speckeld boards spine worn . Munich: J.B. Strobl, 1786. First edition of this rare epistolary account of Schrank’s scientific field trip throughout Bavaria in 1784 and 1785. While Schrank devotes a good portion of the text to botanical observations, he also provides

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