Fischer Versuch einer Naturgeschichte von Livland

FISCHER, J(ACOB BENJAMIN). Versuch einer Naturgeschichte von Livland... Leipzig (verlegts Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf) 1778.

8:o. (3), 4-16, (8), (1)-374, (18, last leaf blank) pp. 2 engraved plates, one folding (all, some foxing).
New half leather, marbled endpapers, some staining in upper margin, somewhat harder on the first 8 leaves.

Pritzel 2920. Rare first edition, with an introduction by Nathanael Gottried Leske. A supplement was published at Riga in 1784 (not present). A second edition appeared at Königsberg in 1791.

From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).

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