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MISCELLANEOUS]. AMMAN, Johannes (1707-41). Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte... St. Petersburg: Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. 4 o (255 x 198 mm). 35 engraved folding plates (plates 14 and 16 on one sheet), (light marginal browning and staining). Contemporary calf (rabacked, old spine laid down). FIRST EDITION. "Amman was a Swiss, born in Schaffhausen, who studied under Herman Boerhaave at Leyden and worked as curator for Sir Hans Sloane and became professor of botany at St. Petersberg. He made a notable contributions to Russian taxonomy under Peter the Great and his immediate successors; and was thus a precursor of Gmelin and Pallas...The present work combines useful descriptions of 285 plants with clear plates" (Hunt 511); Nissen BBI 24; Pritzel 136; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 114. LANGE, Johann Michael (1664-1731). Dissertatio botanico-theologica de herba Borith. Altdorf: Kohles, 1705. 4 o (202 x 160 mm). One engraved plate. Contemporary calf (upper cover detached). Provenance : Coward College Library (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Pritzel 5041. SCHEUCHZER, Johann (1684-1738). Agrostographia sive graminum, juncorum, cyperorum...historia. Zurich: Bodmer, 1719. 4 o (200 x 163 mm). Title printed in red and black, 19 engraved plates, including 8 folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf (some minor rubbing to spine). Provenance : purchased from Wheldon and Wesley, 1964. FIRST EDITION. The work was reissued by Albrecht Haller in 1775. Nissen BBI 1751; Pritzel 8174. MAPP, Marcus (1666-1736). Historia plantarum alsaticarum. Edited by Johann Christian Ehrmann (1710-1797). Strassburg: J.D. Dulsecker and Amsterdam: P. Mortier, 1742. 4 o (243 x 187 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 7 engraved folding plates (and 6 duplicates) by Sanneker, Stridbeck and Weis. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (some wear to spine and corners). FIRST EDITION of this important Alsatian flora. Nissen BBI 1274; Pritzel 5794; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 5369. RUPPIUS, Heinrich Bernhard (1688-1719). Flora Jenensis. Jena: C.H. Cunon, 1745. 8 o (172 x 100 mm). 6 engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum (rebacked). Third edition, of this regional German flora. Pritzel 7913; Stafleu and Cowan TL2 9790. RAY, John (1628-1705). Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum... London: Smith, 1690. 8 o (176 x 105 mm). 2 engraved plates. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : purchased from W and W, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Henrey 321. HALES, Stephen (1677-1761). Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or an account of some Statical Experiments in the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys, 1731. One volume (of 2 only). 8 o (197 x 121 mm). 18 engraved plates. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : purchased from W & W, 1973. Second edition. Hales was the first "to realize that carbon dioxide was supplied to plants by the air and formed a vital part of the plant's food supply" (PMM). The second volume relates to blood presure. Norman 970; PMM 189. MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-94). Opera omnia, seu thesaurus locopletissimus botanico-medicao-anatomicus... Leiden: Peter van der Aa, 1687. First volume (of 2, only). 4 o (231 x 188 mm). 88 engraved plates (some folding). Contemporary vellum (wear to spine ends). First continental edition. NLM/Krivatsy 7321; Pritzel 5763; Waller 6202. (8)