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Anbieter: Antiquariaat Junk, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Gottingae, A. Vandenhoeck, 1753. 8vo (190 x 125mm). pp. lxxx, 424, (18), with engraved title-vignette showing the botanical garden. Contemporary half vellum, manuscript title on spine. In 1736 Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) was appointed professor of the newly founded University of Göttingen. In the same year he established the Botanical Garden. He stayed 17 years in Göttingen and the amount of work achieved by him is enormous. Apart from his professorship he foundend the Botanical Garden, an anatomical museum, an obstretrical school and similar institutions, he carried on without interruption original investigations in botany and physiology, the results of which are preserved in the numerous works associated with his name; he also conducted a monthly journal (the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen), to which he is said to have contributed twelve thousand articles relating to almost every branch of human knowledge. An uncut copy, the last few leaves with some unobtrusive marginal dampstaining.Stafleu & Cowan 2309.
Verlag: Göttingen: in the shop of the widow of Abram Vandenhoeck, 1753, 1753
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Second edition, greatly enlarged, of Haller's 1743 work Brevis enumeratio stirpium horti Goettingensis. Haller organised the botanical garden at Göttingen University during his professorial tenure; this work is a classification of the plants in the garden, using Haller's own non-Linnaean taxonomical system. Pritzel 3723. Octavo (158 x 93 mm). Contemporary calf, brown label and gilt compartments within raised bands to spine, floral decoration stamped in blind to cover edges, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved vignette of garden to title page. Small chip at foot of spine, minor wear to boards. A very good copy.