Author: Oltmanns, F.
Title: Morphologie und Biologie der Algen. Zweite, umgearbeitete Auflage. Erster, Zweiter, Dritter Band. [Complete].
Description: Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1922-1923. Three volumes in three. 8vo (24.9 x 18.0 cm). 1473 pp. [vi, 459; iv, 439; vii, 558]; 696 [287; 325; 184] text illustrations. Original uniform greyish buckram with dark brown title on the spines and front boards. Marbled endpapers. = The second and best edition (first: 1904-1905), of this massive, well-illustrated work. The first volume deals with Chrysophycea - Chlorophyceae; the second with Phaecophyceae - Rhodophyceae; the third with Morphologie - Fortpflanzung. Die Ernährung der Algen - Des Haushalt der Gewässer - Die Lebensbedingungen - Vegetations-Perioden - Das Zusammenleben. There is a good and scarce 1974 reprint, but this is an impeccable set of the rare original edition. Tiny, old bookplate of a German bookshop in the lower margin of the front pastedowns, no other markings. A near mint, clean set.

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