Lot 140
Botany.- Levant.- Forsskål (Pehr) and Carsten Niebuhr (editor). Flora AEgyptiaco-Arabica, first edition, Copenhagen, Ex officina Mölleri, 1775.
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Botany.- Levant.- Forsskål (Pehr) and Carsten Niebuhr (editor). Flora AEgyptiaco-Arabica, first edition, engraved map of Yemen by J.Haas after Niebuhr with hand-colouring, light damp-mottling to last few ff. and map, Le Proux and C. Delaby bookplates, modern cloth-backed boards, calf label to spine, edges uncut, [Stafleu & Cowan 1819], 4to, Copenhagen, Ex officina Mölleri, 1775.
⁂ Posthumous work including the first descriptions of many Arabian plants; the author, who was a follower of Linnaeus, died of plague in the Yemen in 1768.
"Peter Forsskal was born in Helsingfors and studied in Uppsala and Göttingen. He joined a Swedish expedition to the near East. Forsskal collected extensively in Egypt and Saudi Arabia...The sole survivor of the expedition, Carl Niebuhr, saw Forsskal's manuscript through the press, the most important of these documents was the 'Flora aegyptiaco-arabica." (Stafleu. Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p.151).
Description
Botany.- Levant.- Forsskål (Pehr) and Carsten Niebuhr (editor). Flora AEgyptiaco-Arabica, first edition, engraved map of Yemen by J.Haas after Niebuhr with hand-colouring, light damp-mottling to last few ff. and map, Le Proux and C. Delaby bookplates, modern cloth-backed boards, calf label to spine, edges uncut, [Stafleu & Cowan 1819], 4to, Copenhagen, Ex officina Mölleri, 1775.
⁂ Posthumous work including the first descriptions of many Arabian plants; the author, who was a follower of Linnaeus, died of plague in the Yemen in 1768.
"Peter Forsskal was born in Helsingfors and studied in Uppsala and Göttingen. He joined a Swedish expedition to the near East. Forsskal collected extensively in Egypt and Saudi Arabia...The sole survivor of the expedition, Carl Niebuhr, saw Forsskal's manuscript through the press, the most important of these documents was the 'Flora aegyptiaco-arabica." (Stafleu. Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p.151).
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