AGARDH, CARL ADOLPH:
LÄROBOK I BOTANIK. 1-2.
Malmö, Från N.H. Thomsons Boktryckeri; på C.W.K. Gleerups Förlag, 1829 - 1832.
8vo. [16], 416; [10], 460 pp. + errata leaf + 5 engraved plates by Carl Joachim Lundberg [1802-61].
¶ First edition of Agardh's two-volume textbook on botany.
Includes extensive bibliographical references in the footnotes, and a printed dedication (pp. [5-8]) to Schellingin German.
Volume one entitled Vexternes Organografi; volume two Allmän Wext-Biologi.
Carl Adolph Agardh [1785-1859], Professor of botany at the Univeristy of Lund, mathematician, national economist, member of the Parlament from 1817, clergyman (bishop in Karlstad in 1835) and member of the Swedish Academy.
"In 1827, Agardh visited Venice and Trieste for algological studies and on his way home he met Schelling. The philosophical speculationsof Schelling greatly influenced Agardh's imaginative mind, making him a spokesman - as far as we know the only one in Sweden - for the nature-philosophy which had been so widely adopted by the German botanists of that time. This is apparent from Agardh's Lärobok i Botanik I-II (Manual of Botany; 1829-32) which besides an excellent corecontains absolutely fantastic hypotheses"(Robert E. Fries).
Krok, pp. 12-3. Robert E. Fries, A short history of botany in Sweden, p. 55.Two volumes, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, green edges.
Georg Ludvig von Rosen's [1786-1857] copy, with his bookplate.
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