Search Results: stirpium austriacarum pars i ii by crantz heinrich johann

Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

Vienna: Krauss, 1769. Two volumes bound in one, quarto, illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates, (age-toned, the final plate a littlre frayed at the fore-edge and neatly repaired at the folds), two main title pages six sub-title pages to the fascicles and six dedication pages all with engraved vignettes, several engraved tail-pieces, pp xii, 508, (8), a little age-toning throughout, occasional spotting and foxing, but otherwise sound, smartly bound in a fairly modern half-calf, slightly rubbed.As usual it is the second printing of the first volume, and the first edition of the second. The first title page has the blind stamp of Isaac Bayley Balfour. [As well as Regius Keeper of Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Balfour had the distinction, at various times, of being Professor of Botany at Glasgow, Oxford and Edinburgh. Crantz was a botanist but primarily a physician, lecturing in obstetrics. As an extremely sharp-sighted and sensible observer - and in a scientific dispute with his contemporaries Jacquin… Read More