SCHLEIDEN, Mathias Jacob (1804-81). Beitrage zur Botanik.

SCHLEIDEN, Mathias Jacob (1804-81).  Beiträge zur Botanik ... Gesammelte Aufsatze. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilh. Engelmann, 1844. Volume one [all published], 8vo (218 x 135mm). Half title, 9 lithographed plates (variable staining, spotting and browning). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spine gilt (corners bumped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 112; cf. PMM 307(a) (both references citing Schleiden’s Beiträge zur Phytogenesis (1838)): “[Schleiden] insisted on the independence of the cell and presented for the first time the notion that a plant, for example, is a community of cells.”