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Gorter´s Flora Ingrica 1761-64
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6000 SEK
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8 000-1 000 SEK
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GORTER, DAVID. Flora Ingrica ex schedis Stephani Krascheninnikow... confecta et propriis observationibus aucta. + Appendix ad floram ingricam. Petropoli (typis Academiae Scientiarum) 1761-(64).
8:o. (3), 4-8, (1)-190, (5), 196-204, (2) pp.
Modern quarter morocco, marbled paper boards. Bookplate.
Pritzel 3475, Soulsby 641b.
First edition of this interesting flora of the region around St. Petersburg based on the unpublished manuscript of Stephen Petrovich Krasheninnikov. In this work Gorter uses the Linnaean binary nomenclature. The appendix "ad floram ingricam" deals with plants collected by Eric Laxman. De Gorter was a renowned Dutch botanist and personal physician to the empress Elisabeth of Russia.
Auktionsnummer:
6348
Date:
2016-12-20