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FÖRSKAL, Peter. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica sive descriptiones plantarum, quas Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem, Copenhagen: Möller, 1775. Small 4°, engraved frontispiece map by Peter Haas after Niebuhr, good margins (map lightly spotted, else only very few spots), contemporary tree calf (rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed); small embossed library stamp in upper margin of map and title, cancellation stamp on verso of title; 3 signatures on front blank. FIRST EDITION. Plesch 264; Pritzel 2969.
In Förskal's work a large amount of Arabian plants are described for the first time. He was a pupil of Linnaeus and travelled out with a major research voyage to Arabia in January 1761. He died of malaria at Jerim, Yemen, in July 1763, having completed his work on the botany of Arabia. It was seen through the press by Carl Niebuhr who was the only surviving member of the expedition.
In Förskal's work a large amount of Arabian plants are described for the first time. He was a pupil of Linnaeus and travelled out with a major research voyage to Arabia in January 1761. He died of malaria at Jerim, Yemen, in July 1763, having completed his work on the botany of Arabia. It was seen through the press by Carl Niebuhr who was the only surviving member of the expedition.
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