GMELIN, Samuel Gottlieb. Historia Fucorum, St. Petersburg: ex typographia Academiae Scientiarum, 1768, 4°, 35 folding engraved plates (perforation stamp on title, light ink stamps on verso of plates), contemporary calf (lacking backstrip, spine broken). [Brunet II, 1628; Nissen BBI 722; Pritzel 3396] Provenance: JCL

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GMELIN, Samuel Gottlieb. Historia Fucorum, St. Petersburg: ex typographia Academiae Scientiarum, 1768, 4°, 35 folding engraved plates (perforation stamp on title, light ink stamps on verso of plates), contemporary calf (lacking backstrip, spine broken). [Brunet II, 1628; Nissen BBI 722; Pritzel 3396] Provenance: JCL

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Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin was Johnann Georg Gmelin's nephew and worked as an explorer in Asia for the Russian Academy of Sciences. He edited volumes III and IV of Gmelin's Flora Sibirica after the death of his uncle.

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