Author: Baranov, P. A. and E.G. Bobrov (eds.)
Title: Ot Aptekarskogo ogoroda do Botanicheskogo instituta : ocherki po istorii Botanicheskogo instituta Akademii nauk SSSR. [From the Aptekarsky garden to the Botanical Institute: essays on the history of the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.]
Description: Moscow - Leningrad, Akademii nauk SSSR, 1957. 8vo (22.0 x 14.7 cm). 307 pp., 15 portraits. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Title on spine. = In Russian. Deals with famous Russian botanists such as Regel, Fedchenko, Komarov, and others from Peter Simon Pallas to Isaienko. Botanical bookplate of Frans Stafleu on the front pastedown. Inscribed on the front free endpaper recto: "Leningrad / 1 oct. 1966 / van Fedorov", most probably in Stafleu's handwriting. Otherwise a very good (near mint) copy.

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