Enumeratio Plantarum Novarum. A Cl. Schrenk Lectarum
Petropoli [i.e., St. Petersburg, Russia]: [Printed by G. Fischer], 1841. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, Part I only, 1841. vii,113 pp. plus two plates. In Latin and German. Modern green buckram. Ex-lib., with institutional inkstamps in lower margin of third page, bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing in title page and plates; cellophane tape repair to lower outer corner of second plate, not affecting image. Good plus. Listing of plants collected by German-born Russian botanists Friedrick Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782-1854) and Carl Anton von Meyer !775-1855) during an expedition to Central Asian Russian interior. The second part of their report, 'Enumeratio Altera Plantarum Novarum,' is not present. Fischer was Director of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden from 1823 to 1850, when he succeeded by Meyer, his colleague and former student. Pritzel 2915. Good +. Item #z07240
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