JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von.
Enumeratio stirpium plerarumque, quae sponte crescunt in agro Vindobonensi, montibusque confinibus.
Vienna, Johann Paul Krauss, 1762. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and 9 folding etched plates depicting plants (branches and leaves of trees and other plants). Contemporary half calf with marbled sides and new backstrip. [4], 315, [7] pp.
€ 1,950
The very talented Dutch botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) was given charge of the Schönbrunn royal gardens already at the age of 25. Under his management the garden became one of the most celebrated in history. The present book was his first description of plants from the vicinity of Schönbrunn (near Vienna), and he used the new Linnaean system.
From the library of André Lawalrée (1921-2005), famous Belgian florist and Redouté expert.
With 2 library stamps on the title-page, a bookplate on the back of the title-page (Bibliotheque Redouteenne A. Lawalree 94) and another on front pastedown: "Andre Anne-M Lawalree-Collaris". Some faint marginal stains, but still in good condition. Hunt 572; Nissen, BBI 670a; Pritzel I-360; Soulsby 643f.
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