Author: Wahlenberg, G.
Title: De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia Septentrionali inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentrionis comparatis tentamen.
Description: Turici Helvetorum (Zürich), Fuessli, 1813. 8vo (21.7 x 12.8 cm)). xcviii, 200 pp., one folding table, three folded engraved plates. 19th century half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Reddish-brown speckled edges. = Göran "Georg" Wahlenberg (1780-1851) was a Swedish naturalist and plant geographer who promoted floristic and systematic research in Sweden. "In 1812-14 Wahlenberg travelled in Switzerland... His researches in the Swiss alps resulted in the book "De Vegetatione et Climate in Helvetia...", in which he gives an account of the plant regions and their designations, the tree limits, and the lower and upper limits of the various plants, comparing also the vegetation in northern Switzerland with that of Lapland". (Fries, Short History of Botany in Sweden, p. 69). The first plate is a nice profile of the vegetation in the Swiss Alps. Provenance: the "John Briquet Bibliotheca Botanica" and the "Horticultural Society of New York" with their bookplates on the front pastedown, and front flyleaf recto. Rebacked. Original blind front wrapper bound in. Cancelled library stamp of the Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve on the title page; some light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Stafleu and Cowan, 16519.

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