JACQUIN, NICOLAI JOSEPHI.
Enumeratio stirpium plerarumque, quæ sponte crescunt in Agro Vindobonensi, montibusque confinibus. Accedunt Observationum centuria et Appendix de Paucis exoticus. Cum Tabulis æneis.
Vindobonæ (Wien), Joannis Pauli Kraus, 1762. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather. Light wear to spine ends and a small tear at lower hinge. (4),315,(7) pp. and 9 folded engraved plates. A stamp on titlepage. Titlepage a little browned, otherwise fine, printed on thick paper.
¶ Scarce first edition . This Enumeratio is Jacquin's first listing of native plants in the region of Vienna; and he uses the new Linnaean binomials. Jacquin was called "The Austrian Linnaeus".
"Nicolaus Joseph Jaquin, born at Leyden, was a student of Bernard de Jussieu, at the Jardin du Roi, Paris, and from the age of 25 was in charge of the royal gardens at Schönbrunn, near Vienna. Francis I sent him to the West Indies and Central America for new plants; and under Jacquin's care the Schönbrunn gardens came to be of vast scientific importence and world famous." (Hunt:572). - Stafleu & Cowan: 3242 - Pritzel: 4369.
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