JACQUIN, Nicolaus Joseph von. Misecellanea austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia, Vienna: Officina Krausiana, 1778-81, 2 volumes, small 4°, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates by Jakob Adam after Jacquin, 2 folding (last plate with a few light adhesive marks, text lightly spotted), old marbled boards rebacked in library cloth (hinges strenghtened). [Hunt 655; Nissen BBI 975] (2)

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JACQUIN, Nicolaus Joseph von. Misecellanea austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia, Vienna: Officina Krausiana, 1778-81, 2 volumes, small 4°, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates by Jakob Adam after Jacquin, 2 folding (last plate with a few light adhesive marks, text lightly spotted), old marbled boards rebacked in library cloth (hinges strenghtened). [Hunt 655; Nissen BBI 975] (2)

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Library stamps, bookplates and accession numbers of the John Crerar Library of Chicago.

Lot Essay

The forerunner of Jacquin's Collectanea (1786-96) -- a forum for Jacquin and his friends to publish articles. One of the more important is Franz Xaver von Wulfen's Plantae rariores Carinthiacae.

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