Haller (Albrecht von). Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae, 1768

Haller (Albrecht von). Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata, 3 volumes bound in one, 1st edition, Berne: Societatis Typographicae, 1768, 3 parts in one: title, dedication leaf, 444 pp.; title, blank leaf, LXIV, 323 pp.; blank leaf, title, 204 pp., engraved title to first volume with vignette of alpine mountain scene after Huber, and engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication, 48 engraved plates including 15 folding, early engraved bookplate of A. Burroughes A.M. to front pastedown, contemporary reversed calf, gilt spine label, joints cracked and corners showing, small repair to upper board, folio

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Nissen BBI 774; Pritzel 3725; Stafleu/Cowan 2311; Lundsgaard 357; Lonchamp 1367.

First and only edition of Haller's encyclopedia of Swiss flora, arranged according to his own system because he regarded that of Linnaeus too simple. Haller was a Swiss physician, surgeon, poet, and professor of anatomy, surgery and botany at the University of Gottingen.

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