Botanique

1775 · 017855 — Zurich: Orell Gessner Fuessli & Socc 1775. Illustrated with 19 engraved plates of which 8 are folding large thick square octavo pp 20 512 index 24 appendices 92 a little foxing on some early and the last few pages otherwise an astounding copy - uncut edges unpressed wide margins bound in an excellent twentieth century simple brown leather in very good condition. A highly important work in the history of grass taxonomy and with an impeccable provenance - from the library of Allen Wedgewood with the Gallipoli bookplate and thence to C.E. Hubbard with his signature. RARE. Hubbard was the foremost grass taxonomist of the twentieth century. Wedwood was the son of M.L. Wedgewood with whom he collected until his death during the First World War at Gallipoli aged just 22. M.L. Wedgwood created a herbarium of British plants at Marlborough College MBH as a permanent memorial to her son. The second edition was edited by Albrecht von Haller who added the four appendices as well as descriptions of 70 new plants. Johannes Gaspar Scheuchzer 1684-1738 botanist and physician here describes over four hundred Swiss grasses. Second edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Orell, Gessner, Fuessli & Socc Hardcover