Natural History: Amman (Johan)

Natural History

Amman (Johan) Stirpium Rariorum in Impero Rutheno sponte provenientium Icones et Descriptiones,

35 folding plates, lacking the 2 dedication leaves including an engraved vignette (as sometimes found), errata leaf, spotting and damp staining to plates, ink stamp to title, Amman was member of the Royal Society of London and of the Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg where he established the Botanical Garden and Library as well as the herbarium, modern half morocco, Petropolis (St-Petersburg), Academy of Sciences, 1739 § Buxbaum (J. C.) Plantarum Minus Cognitarum, Centuria I & III only of IV, 2 vols., with 65 and 74 engraved plates, some folding, ex-libris Imperial Baron Heinrich Grote zu Schauen, [Nissen BBI 309], Typographia Academiae, Petropoli [St Petersburg], 1728-29; 4to (2)