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.
