1813 Wahlenberg, classic work on plant ecology, fine provenance, illustrated

Göran Wahlenberg (1780-1851)

De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia Septentrionali inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentrionis comparatis tentame

8vo. XCVIII, 200 pp. 3 engraved plates (2 large and folded into book). Original waxed wrappers with paper label to spine.

Krok Bibliotheca botanica suecana 15.

This work is the result of the author's travels in Europe 1811-14. In the following year, a "Flora Carpatorum" was also published. The botanist Göran Wahlenberg (1780-1851) was the last holder of the linnaean professor's chair in Uppsala. He examined the connections between the localities of the plants, the soil, the bedrock and meteorological and hydrological factors, respectively. His studies heralded the ecological plant geography and were contemporary with - but made independently from - the international pioneer in this field of research, Alexander von Humboldt.

From the collection of Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist (24 April 1800, in Zurich – 6 December 1883, in Gernsbach.). He spent the years 1826-27 on a collecting expedition to the West Indies; worked at the St. Petersburg botanical garden in 1828-30; was curator (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva (G-DeC), 1830–4. He worked as a teacher in Geneva and Bern and after his marriage in 1840 settled in Strasbourg.

Good example in original condition. Uncut, minor spotting, minor edge wear. Old library stamp to title. Manuscript ownership inscription ‘Wyedler’ to inside of front wrapper.