Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £170 |
MISCELLANY - Franz Julius Ferdinand MEYER (1804-40). Ueber die Secretions-Organe der Pflanzen. Berlin: F. H. Morin, 1837. 4to (261 x 215mm). 9 engraved plates (variable spotting, staining and browning, plate IX heavily spotted and stained). Contemporary marbled boards, spine with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten (library stamp on title); [?]"Groefl: Schaesberg'sche Bibliothek" (label on front pastedown). With 7 other works of related interest, namely Hugo Mohl's Untersuchungen über die Lentilicellen. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation (Tübingen, [c. 1836], plates [with other works bound in], marbled boards), Karl B. Presl's Hymenophyllaceae (Prague, 1843, 12 plates, marbled boards), J. D. W. Bayrhoffer's Einiges über Lichenen und deren Befruchtung (Bern, 1851, 4 plates, marbled boards), Carl Gegenbaur's Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Schwimmpolypen (Siphonophoren) (Leipzig, 1854, 3 folding plates, marbled boards), A. Braun's Über Parthenogenesis bei Pflanzen (Berlin, 1857, plate, marbled boards), August Solbrig's Ueber die Feinere Structur der Nervenelemente bei den Gasteropoden (Leipzig, 1872, 7 plates, marbled boards) and C. B. Reichert's Ueber das vordere Ende der Chorda dorsualis bei frühzeitigen Haifisch-Embyonen (Acanthias vulgaris) (Berlin, 1877, 2 coloured plates, original green paper boards). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The lot sold not subject to return. (8)