Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Jacquin, Nicolaus Josephus. Miscellanea Austriaca ad Botanicam, Chemiam, et Historiam Naturalem Spectantia, cum figuris partim coloratis. 2 vols.

With 44 (2 folding) coloured copper plates. 2 leaves, 212 pp.; 423, (1) pp. Small 4to. Modern green three-quarter morocco over five raised bands. Spine richly gilt. – Vienna, (Joseph Gerold and Matthias Andreas Schmidt for) Officina Krausiana, 1778–1781.

First edition. Contains the first printing of Franz Xaver von Wulfen’s treatise on the Carinthian plomb stone “Minera plumbi spatosa Carinthiaca” in vol. II. “As a botanist Jacquin was the most important of the younger contemporaries of Linnaeus. His descriptions are still valid today” (DSB VII, 58). – Nissen, BBI, 975; Junk 41; Pritzel 4367. – Very nice copy as well inside and the appropriate binding. – Best.-Nr. 15384