The Principles of Botany, and of Vegetable Physiology

1805 MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF PLANTS BY PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF THEIR GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE, ILLUSTRATED BY FINE ENGRAVED PLATES. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown paper boards, gilt title to spine, front paste-down with armorial bookplate of Jenner of Chislehurst, Kent, iv, 508 pp, 10 copper plate engravings by Daniel Lizars (17541812) (the last plate hand colored). Very good in custom archival mylar cover. CARL LUDWIG WILLDENOW (1765 - 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. He was a director of the Botanical garden of Berlin from 1801 until his death. There he studied many South American plants, brought back by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt. He was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that the same climate had plants having common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is still preserved in the Botanical Garden in Berlin. He is most famous for his synthesis of European plant geography, and his mountains origins theories. Freeman Natural History Books #4003 - translation of Grundriss der Krauterkunde, Berlin 1792; Nissen 2155.

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Year: 1805

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