BERGEN, Carl August von Catalogus Stirpium indigenarum aeque ac exterarum quas Hortus Medicus Academiae Viadrinae complectitur... Frankfurt an der Oder, Philipp Schwartz, 1744
8vo (182 x 106 mm), pp [viii] 120; a fine copy in contemporary vellum, gilt rules on sides and gilt spine. £750
First edition of this catalogue of native and exotic plants in the university botanic garden of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, the first such catalogue. The work featues a number of South African plants.
Bound with the above is a botanical disseration, Johann Friedrich Cartheuser, Dissertatio chymico-physica de genericis quibusdam plantarum principiis hactenus plerumque neglectis, Frankfurt an der Oder, Johann Christian Kleyb, 1744, pp 78. The work deals with rare plants and the medical properties of their distillates and extracts.
Pritzel 657; NUC: PPAN
£750
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