AMMAN, Johannes (1707-41). Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte... St. Petersburg: Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. 4 o (258 x 200 mm). 35 engraved folding plates [plates 14 and 16 on one sheet] (light marginal browning and staining). Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION. "Amman was a Swiss, born in Schaffhausen, who studied under Herman Boerhaave at Leyden and worked as curator for Sir Hans Sloane and became professor of botany at St. Petersberg. He made notable contributions to Russian taxonomy under Peter the Great and his immediate successors; and was thus a precursor of Gmelin and Pallas...The present work combines useful descriptions of 285 plants with clear plates" (Hunt 511); Nissen BBI 24; Pritzel 136; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 114. [ Bound with ]: BUXBAUM, Johann Christian (1693-1730). Plantarum minus cognitarum... St. Petersburg: Typographia Academiae, 1733. Parts 4, 5 and appendix (of 5 only). 131 engraved folding plates. FIRST EDITION. Rare work on the plants of Constantinople and its neighborhood. Nissen BBI 309. See lot 21.
AMMAN, Johannes (1707-41). Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte... St. Petersburg: Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. 4 o (258 x 200 mm). 35 engraved folding plates [plates 14 and 16 on one sheet] (light marginal browning and staining). Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION. "Amman was a Swiss, born in Schaffhausen, who studied under Herman Boerhaave at Leyden and worked as curator for Sir Hans Sloane and became professor of botany at St. Petersberg. He made notable contributions to Russian taxonomy under Peter the Great and his immediate successors; and was thus a precursor of Gmelin and Pallas...The present work combines useful descriptions of 285 plants with clear plates" (Hunt 511); Nissen BBI 24; Pritzel 136; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 114. [ Bound with ]: BUXBAUM, Johann Christian (1693-1730). Plantarum minus cognitarum... St. Petersburg: Typographia Academiae, 1733. Parts 4, 5 and appendix (of 5 only). 131 engraved folding plates. FIRST EDITION. Rare work on the plants of Constantinople and its neighborhood. Nissen BBI 309. See lot 21.
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