Author: Moritzi, A.
Title: Die Flora der Schweiz, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Vertheilung nach allgemein physischen und geologischen Momenten.
Description: Zürich & Winterthur, Literarischen Comptoirs, 1844. Small, thick 8vo (15.6 x 10.3 cm) xxii, 640 pp.; handcoloured folded geological map of Switzerland with five different colours. Original pebbled cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Green endpapers. = Rare first edition, relates plant geography with soil science and geology of the Alps (Molassen Formation, see Nachtrag zur Einleitung). Boards a bit smudged, scattered, mostly light foxing throughout; the map cleaner. In all quite a good copy. Pritzel 6469; Stafleu and Cowan, 6338.

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