Live auction - Lot 243

[Botany - Photosynthesis]

BONNET, Charles

Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la végétation.

Göttingen, Leiden, E. Luzac, 1754

€ 200 / 300

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4to: viii-343 pp.; 31 pl. (text sl. toned).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt coat of arms on cover, spine with raised bands, later endpapers, all edges red (sides rubbed, rebacked with the old spine laid down). Good, wide-margined copy.

First edition. This work marks the beginning of the research of photosynthesis, the basis of the most important metabolistic process on earth. DSB: "For his masterly experimentation Bonnet should be considered one of the first naturalists to investigate experimentally the question of photosynthesis". Ill. with an engr. title-vign. and 31 fold. engr. pl. by Van der Schley and Wandelaar.
Ref. DSB II:286. - Nissen (BBI) 201.
Prov. C.J. Heise (sm. ms. entry). - Unidentified coat of arms.

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Lot 243

Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la végétation.

BONNET, Charles

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