May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 52

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[Medicine & Science] Kützing, Friedrich Traugott (1807-1893)
Tabulae Phycologicae.

Nordhausen: Kosten des Verfassers, 1845-1866.

First edition, sixteen octavo volumes bound as eight, illustrated with a total of 1,600 lithographic plates (100 in each part), bound in full uniform period pebbled leather and textured cloth boards, dry, spines sun faded, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., occupying one linear foot of shelf space. (8)

Kützing was a botanist and pharmacist who had a special interest in algae. This impressive work documents 6,000 species of algae.

Pritzel 4912; Nissen 1109; rare at auction.