[BOTANY]. -- HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm (1824-1877). Handbuch der physiologischen Botanik. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1867-1877. 4 volumes, 8o (229 x 152 mm). Numerous illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt (light wear to spines and edges). Provenance: Gestrike-Helsinge Nations Bibliothek (gilt stamp on upper covers and ink stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. The work includes: Die Lehre von der Pflanzenzelle, "which was original in stressing the functional aspects of cytology" (DSB), and Allgemeine Morphologie der Gewchse, the first textbook of plant morphogenesis. Norman 1085 and 1086. -- HOFMEISTER. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the higher Cryptogamia, and on the Fructification of the Coniferae. Translated by Frederick Currey. London: Robert Hardwicke for the Ray Society, 1862. 8o. (219 x 141 mm). 65 lithographed plates by Tuffen West after the author's drawings. Original gilt and blind stamped blue cloth (light fading to spine). Second edition of the Vergleichende Untersuchungen ... (See lot 1125), published only in English. Dibner Heralds of Science 34; Nissen BBI 902; Norman 1084. -- SACHS, Julius von (1832-1897). Vorlesungen ber Pflanzen-Physiologie. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1882. 8o (224 x 153 mm). Illustrations in text. Contemporary black half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered (rubbing to edges). FIRST EDITION. Norman 1879. -- GRAY, Asa. (1810-1888). Elements of Botany. New York: Carvill, 1836. 8o (186 x 111 mm). Illustrations in text. Original cloth (rebacked, original spine laid down). FIRST EDITION. Pritzel 3522; Norman 936. (5)