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Lot 359
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
Estimate
$300 -
400
Lot Description
[Natural History] Scheuchzer, Johann. Agrostographia sive graminum, juncorum, cyperorum
Zurich: Bodmer, 1719. First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red and black; 19 copper engraved plates, 8 folding. Light spotting and offsetting. Early cloth-backed paper boards, uncut, light rubbing to extremes. Cleveland Collections 343; Nissen ZBI 1751; Stafleu & Cowan 10.576.
First edition, with plates after Johan Melchoir Fussli and Johann Henrich Huber. According to Stafleu & Cowan, the 8 folding plates by Huber are identical to those in Scheuzcher's Agrostographiae helveticae prodromus.
This lot is located in Chicago.

