Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene Vigil and the remaining stock of Antiquariat Botanicum Lots 1-90
1 ACCUM, Friedrich (1769-1838). A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of Wine Making depends; the Fruits best adapted for Home made Wines, and the method of preparing them. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820. 12mo (187 x 108mm). Hand-colored engraved title-vignette; 24-pp. publisher’s catalogue at end. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, partially uncut (minor wear to spine end and corners). FIRST EDITION. The catalogue at end contains several reviews of Accum’s Treatise on Adulterations of Food. Bitting, p. 2; Simon 16; Vicaire 4. Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400
2 ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy. London : R. Hindmarsh, sold by the Author, 1794. 5 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece, 39 folding plates. (4 plates supplied from shorter copy margins extended to size, some uncut plate margins frayed, one with longer tear not affecting image.) Original paper-backed boards, printed spine labels, uncut and largely unopened (spines lightly toned, minor wear to extremities, labels rubbed). Provenance: Ben Damph Forest Library (stamps on pastedowns). FIRST EDITION of his last publication, containing his lectures on many areas of natural philosophy from astronomy to optics. ESTC T88417. Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $1,000 - 1,500
3 ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806). Familles des Plantes. Paris: Vincent, 1763. 2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 117mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor toning and occasional spotting.) Contemporary French calf gilt (some repairs to joints, minor wear to spines and extremities). Provenance: Émile Burnat (his bookplate and donation label to Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve with duplicate release stamp, 1922); Kenneth K. Mackenzie (bequest to:); New York Horticultural Society of New York (bequest bookplate, 1934). FIRST EDITION of this important work in botanical classification. In this book, Adanson proclaimed his contempt for Linneaen systems. Adanson had been sent to Senegal in 1748 to catalogue the natural resources of the country. “The bewildering diversity of tropical vegetation made the systems of classification proposed by Tournefort and Linnaeus appear pitifully inadequate, based as they had been on the wild flora of Europe and a limited number of cultivated plants...he concluded that, by making a large limited number of systems and then putting together those plants which belonged together in the greatest number of systems without attaching greater importance to one set of characters than another, he could make one generally satisfactory natural system” (Hunt Cat., Introduction, pp. xcii-xciii). Hunt 577; Pritzel 21 Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $500 - 700 4
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