FEUILLÉE, LUDWIG (LOUIS E.).

Beschreibung zur Arzeney dienlicher Pflanzen, welche in den Reichen des mittägigen America, in Peru und Chily vorzüglich im Gebrauch sind, in dem Land selbst auf Königl-Befehl, in den Jahren von 1709. 1710. und 1711. aufgesezet, nebst verschiedenen andern aus eben desselben Tageregister physischer Beobachtungen gesammelten und zur natürlichen Historie gehörigen Anmerkungen....übersezet von Georg Leonhard Huth. (1. - Zweyter Theil).

Nürnberg, Johann Michael Seligmann, 1756-57.

4to. Bound in one cont. hcalf. Back somewhat worn, hinges with tears so cords are seen, but not loose. Corners bumped. Titlelabel on back. (8),3-136,(6);(4),208,(12) pp. and 100 (50+50) fine engraved botanical plates (P.L. Feuille ad viv.del - I.M. Seligmann excud) and 2 unnumbered engraved plates (1 with an Owl, 1 with a Tortoise). In all 102 plates. Printed on thick fine paper, and internally fine and clean, plates as well as text.

Scarce first German edition of Feuillée's important work on the medical flora of Chile and Peru and the West Indies by which he laid the ground for the scientific study of Latin American medical plants. This German edition is a translation of the volume on plants from the author's "Histoire des Plantes Medicales de Perou et Chili (as volume III of his "Journal des observation physique, mathematique et Botanique", Paris 1714-25).
This German edition was supplied with finely plates reengraved by Seligmann. Feuillée describes, illustrates and records the uses of 100 medical plants from these areas.
Hunt II:No 433 "Plates, many of plants. Especially interesting are those in vol. III (published 11 years after the other two) made after or on voyages to South America, the West Indies, and New Spain. Feuillée is honoured properly in Fevillea Linn., a genus of tropical American Cucurbitaceae." (Hunt does not have the German edition). - Junk Rara p. 50: "Le seul botaniste qui a écrit avant Feuillée sur la Flore de l'Amerique non-septentrionale maisqui ne s'est occupé que de la Flore des Fougères des Indes Occidentales est Ch. Plumier." - Pritzel No 2882. - Nissen ZBI: 633 - Sabin No 24226 (only mentions 100 plates). - BMC(NH) II:569 recording only the second German edition from 1766.

Order-nr.: 28605