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SCHLEIDEN, Jacob Mathias (1804-1881). Grundzge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus for Wilhelm Engelmann, 1842-1843.
2 volumes in one, 8o (212 x 132 mm). Half-titles, 1-leaf errata at end of vol. 1, 3-leaf errata and 1-leaf publisher's catalogue at end of vol. 3. (Small marginal tear to fol. 2:18/7.) Contemporary quarter calf, parchment corners, spine gilt (slight wear to extremities, inner hinges split). Provenance: Oskar Sternvall (bookplate); Anne Hunter (1936 inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of Schleiden's most extensive and influential botanical work. Schleiden's botany textbook "introduced new pedagogical standards that were to dominate the teaching of botany for years... Schleiden considered the inductive method the only valid one in biology, and the first part of the book constitutes an important document for the study of the methodology of natural history... The entire structure of Schleiden's textbook was fundamentally new. The lengthy work begins with a study of the material elements of the plant. Next there is a large section on plant cytology [which expands upon Schleiden's important 1838 article on cell formation (see preceding lot)], and then a treatment of morphology and organology. The book, which established the teaching of botany on a completely new basis, was often reprinted and appeared in various translations and adaptations" (DSB). Dibner 31; Grolier/Horblit 93b; Milestones of Science 177; Pritzel 8224; Waller 11732; Norman 1908.
2 volumes in one, 8
FIRST EDITION of Schleiden's most extensive and influential botanical work. Schleiden's botany textbook "introduced new pedagogical standards that were to dominate the teaching of botany for years... Schleiden considered the inductive method the only valid one in biology, and the first part of the book constitutes an important document for the study of the methodology of natural history... The entire structure of Schleiden's textbook was fundamentally new. The lengthy work begins with a study of the material elements of the plant. Next there is a large section on plant cytology [which expands upon Schleiden's important 1838 article on cell formation (see preceding lot)], and then a treatment of morphology and organology. The book, which established the teaching of botany on a completely new basis, was often reprinted and appeared in various translations and adaptations" (DSB). Dibner 31; Grolier/Horblit 93b; Milestones of Science 177; Pritzel 8224; Waller 11732; Norman 1908.