Live auction - Lot 1021
[Medicine - Pharmacognosy]
Flora Francica Rediviva, Oder Kräuter-Lexicon.
Leipzig, Joh. Chr. Martini, 1736
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [14]-640 pp. (overall browning, dampstaining in the margins, title loosening, portrait missing, some ink scribbling on first and last pastdown).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat ink titled spine, red edges.
Later German ed. (first 1713) of the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants by the German physician and botanist G.F. von Franckenau (1643-1704), personal physician to the Margrave of Baden, the Duke of Württemberg and the Archbishop of Trier and later to Christian V in Copenhagen. Title in red & black. Printed in Gothic and roman type.
Ref. VD18 11489812. - Blake 159. - Wellcome III:59 (other ed.). - Pritzel 3015. - BnF.
Prov. E. Grendel (bookpl.). - Adolf Raidt (ms. ownership entry).