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KLREUTER, Joseph Gottlieb (1733-1806). Vorlaufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen. Leipzig: Gleditsch, 1761-66.
Four parts in one volume, 8o (190 x 110 mm). Woodcut devices on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, folding letterpress table. Late 18th-century boards. Provenance: J.H.G. Reuss (ownership inscription, dated 1804, on front free endpaper; his notations on endpapers; and bookplate); Hans Winckler, 1894 (signature on front free endpaper).
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION KLREUTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST PLANT HYBRID PRODUCED THROUGH SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION. Although Camerer had demonstrated the existence of sexuality in plants (see lot 349), "it was Klreuter who first gave this knowledge a scientific application. Recognizing that a demonstration of hybridization in plants would provide strong evidence for plant, Klreuter set out to produce plant hybrids under strictly controlled conditions, using castration and artifical pollination ... he also made precise and original observations of the fertilization and pollination processes, and some astute conjectures as to why plant hybrids are so rarely found in nature" (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 28; Pritzel 4791; Norman 1233.
Four parts in one volume, 8o (190 x 110 mm). Woodcut devices on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, folding letterpress table. Late 18th-century boards. Provenance: J.H.G. Reuss (ownership inscription, dated 1804, on front free endpaper; his notations on endpapers; and bookplate); Hans Winckler, 1894 (signature on front free endpaper).
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION KLREUTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST PLANT HYBRID PRODUCED THROUGH SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION. Although Camerer had demonstrated the existence of sexuality in plants (see lot 349), "it was Klreuter who first gave this knowledge a scientific application. Recognizing that a demonstration of hybridization in plants would provide strong evidence for plant, Klreuter set out to produce plant hybrids under strictly controlled conditions, using castration and artifical pollination ... he also made precise and original observations of the fertilization and pollination processes, and some astute conjectures as to why plant hybrids are so rarely found in nature" (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 28; Pritzel 4791; Norman 1233.