BUXBAUM, J.C. Plantarum minus cognitum. St. Petersburg: 1728-1740. 5 parts in 4 vols., 4to, 265 x 200mm., contemporary speckled calf, worn, some spotting to contents, A4 in part III torn. FIRST EDITION. 291 (of 293?) plates only (six folding). Rare work on the plants of Constantinople and its neighbourhood. The plate count is complicated, but the present copy apparently lacks one plate from the main body of the work and 2 from the appendix. Nissen BBI 309 (276 plates plus 44 subjects on an unspecified number of plates in the appendix).