JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von

Miscellanea Austriaca ad Botanicam, Chemiam, et Historiam Naturalem spectantia

      44 finely handcolored engraved plates (several are folding). 2 p.l., 212 pp.; 423, [1] pp. Two vols. 4to, cont. marbled half sheep & marbled boards, flat spines richly gilt, contrasting vellum lettering pieces on each spine. Vienna: Kraus, 1778-81.p First edition. !This, like its continuation of larger format, the Collectanea (1786-96), was a device for publishing articles of Jacquin et amicorum...Among the friends, Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728-1805) is especially important for his !Plantae rariores Carinthiacae.!...Great Flower Books notes that the drawings for the plates were by Jacquin and the engravings by Adam.!!Hunt 655!(their copy lacks five plates). This work contains the first printings of von Wulfen!s two treatises on Carinthina wulfenite. These are contained in his articles !Minera Plumbi Spatosa Carinthiaca! and !Exploratio Chemica Plumbi Spatosi flavi Carinthiaci.! The other articles deal with botany, chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, pharmacology, zoology, etc. Jacquin (1727-1817), professor of chemistry and botany in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, made important contributions to botany and chemistry. !He was the most important of the younger contemporaries of Linnaeus. He was the first writer in German to utilize to any large extent Linnaeus! system of binary nomenclature, and was foremost in his time with respect to the number of new species described precisely and in a consistent way.!!D.S.B., VII, p. 58. Jacquin also formed a magnificent collection of minerals which !was ultimately purchased for the enormous sum of 20,000 gulden by Archduke Johann and eventually incorporated with his own collection in the !Joanneum! in Graz.!!Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799, p. 102. Very pretty set in a most attractive contemporary binding. ❧ B.M. (N.H.), Vol. II, p. 918!(with a list of the contents). Pritzel 4367. Schuh, Mineralogy: A Bio-Bibliography 2426!!Volume two contains !Minera Plumbi spatosa Carinthiaca! by F.X. Wulfen.! Stafleu & Cowan 3248.. First Edition. Hard cover.