HEDWIG, Johann. Theoria Generationis et Fructificationis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum. St. Petersburg: typis Academiae Imper. Scientiarum, 1784. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
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$800 -
$1,200
Sold for $938
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Lot Description
HEDWIG, Johann (1730-1799). Theoria Generationis et Fructificationis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum. St. Petersburg: typis Academiae Imper. Scientiarum, 1784.
4to (252 x 194mm). 37 hand-colored engraved plates by Capieux after drawings by the author. (Some dampstaining or damp-wrinkling to plates, heaviest on first 3 plates, some minor offsetting of color to facing versos). Contemporary red morocco gilt, edges gilt (some minor marginal dampstains).
FIRST EDITION of Hedwig's important thesis on the reproduction of cryptogamic plants, which was issued with colored and uncolored plates.
Brunet III, 77; Nissen, BBI 832; Pritzel 3879.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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