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Title: Flora Mythologica oder Pflanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und Römer. Ein Beitrag zur ältesten Geschichte der Botanik, Agricultur und Medecin.
Description: Frankfurt, Johann David Sauerländer, 1833. 8vo. x, 218 pp. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with green paper label with printed title. = Deals, e.g., with "Bäume und Sträucher der Wälder", "Heilkräuter und Giftpflanzen" and "Heilpflanzen des Chiron, Achilles, Minerva, Glaukos". Johann Dierbach (1788-1845) was a botanist from Heidelberg and published a Flora Heidelbergensis in 1819-1820. Armorial bookplate of J. Timmers, "Fortiter et suaviter" on the front pastedown, and the name A. A. Timmers in a neat old hand in the top margin of the title page. Board edges and spine cover rubbed; some mostly vague damp staining in the gutter, beginning and end, othrwise very good. Rare. Not in Stafleu and Cowan.

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Price: EUR 320.00 = appr. US$ 347.79 Seller: Dieter Schierenberg BV
- Book number: 29283