HALLER, Albrecht von (1708-1777).: — Bibliotheca botanica. Qua scripta ad rem herbariam facientia a rerum initiis recensentur. Tomus I. Tempora ante Tournefortium.

Tiguri [=Zürich]: Orell, Gessner, Fuessli et Soc., 1771. 4to, 23.7cm. Pp. xvi,654, woodcut title-vignette, footnote refs. Contemp. half calf, backstrip with raised bands and gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered red title label, red paper edges. Edges of boards worn, very good otherwise. - One of the classic bibliographies of botanical literature, "one of the eighteenth century's best bibliographical exhibits. Though it lacks such formal and precise treatment of titles and imprints as we are accustomed to today, the Bibliotheca botanica is tremendously impressive in its erudition, its analyses of contents of important volumes, [and] its biographical notes" (Hunt). Alas we only can offer the above first volume, of the two, but it is complete in itself and covers the botanical literature from the earliest times up to the end of the 17th century. Very rare, also as a single volume. With ex-libris of the German historian of biology and book collector Günther Schmid (1888-1949), professor of botany at Halle University..