Die Giftpflanzen der schweiz.

Small 4to. [2], XXVI, 81, [2] pp. 38 lithographs with colors (33 plates are poisonous Swiss plants and 5 plates are also poisonous Swiss fungi). Later quarter black gilt-stamped cloth, marbled boards, marbled endsheets. Rubber-stamp facing title (either ownership mark or the binder's stamp, the former being more likely). First edition. The poisonous plants of Switzerland, with 38 lithographic plates by Joseph Brodtmann (1787-1862), a Swiss artist, printmaker, publisher and bookseller. / "Hegetschweiler's great passion was botany. Even on his travels as a country doctor, far beyond the cantonal borders, he constantly observed and collected plants. An avid mountaineer, he often traveled to the Alps (the "Hegetschweilerplatte" at the Gelbe Wand at an altitude of 2,850 m on the Todi, named after him). He used all his trips for botanical studies, including those as a member of the Swiss Diet to Bern, which he combined with excursions to the Jura and the Oberland. He maintained contact with Swiss and foreign scholars, especially with P. Usteri and the young Osw. Heer. Hegetschweiler's excursions aimed to study plants in their natural environment. He sought to prove the thesis that there are original plant types (primordial species) that appear in different forms due to different living conditions in different regions (influences of climate, soil, etc.)." NDB [roughly translated]. / Johannes Hegetschweiler, Swiss physician and botanist, studied medicine in Zurich and Tubingen, living on Lake Zurich. In 1809 he studied medicine at the medical-surgical institute in Zurich, followed by medical studies at the University of Tubingen as a pupil of Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth. While at Tubingen, he also attended lectures in natural sciences given by Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer. He worked as a military doctor in Rheinau near Zurich, where he cared for Austrians suffering from typhus. He served as a doctor in the town of Stafa. From 1831 to 1839 he held various posts with the cantonal government in Zurich. During the so-called Zuriputsch of September 6, 1839, as a mediator between government militia and insurrectionists, he was wounded in the head from a bullet fired by the insurgents, and died three days later on September 9. REFERENCES: Nissen BBI 839; Pritzel 3905; Frans Antonie Stafleu; Richard Sumner Cowan, Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (1976), 2nd ed., 2564. First Edition.

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Publisher: Johannes Esslinger, ca.1830-1831.

Year: 1830

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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