FREE SHIPPING WORLWIDE
WE ACCEPT
Your selection
HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm. On the germination, development and fructification of the Higher Cryptogamia and on the fructification of the Coniferae - Translated by Frederick Currey. 1862.
HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm.
On the germination, development and fructification of the Higher Cryptogamia and on the fructification of the Coniferae - Translated by Frederick Currey.
Londres, Robert Hardwicke for The Ray Society, 1862.
8vo (212x136 mm), xvii-506 pages et 65 planches hors texte. binding : Modern full cloth, flat spine lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges. Minor foxing on plates. Two Library's stamps on the title page and one on the last page of the volume (R. H. C. Library, Rio Hondo College Library (?)).
First edition translated into English.
Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824-1877) was a largely self-taught German biologist and botanist.
With this book, he highlighted the process of fertilization in non-flowering plants (cryptogams).
references: Norman [ 1084: "The second edition of Hofmeister's Vergleichende Untersuchungen was published in English only. It incorporates a series of supplementary papers and some previously unpublished material, and was revised throughout by the author."] , Dibner [34].
Price : 350 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
© Eric Zink, Antiquarian Bookseller