FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER.
Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, ... ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes.
Prague, Kronberger and Weber ("Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne"), 1837. 8vo. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I-II, [III], IV-V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. X, 203, [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,000
First and only edition of a collection of botanical and geological articles on the spa town Marienbad (Mariánské Láznì), now part of the Czech Republic. It contains a transcription of Goethe's manuscript catalogue of the geological specimens he collected in Marienbad in 1821, introduced by the local physician Karl Joseph Heidler, who also expanded Goethes notes. It further contains short botanical descriptions of the local flora by Friedrich August II, since 1836 King of Saxony, and several articles on various topics regarding the town and its mineral spas by Heidler himself.
Foxed and with a marginal water stain through the first third of the book. Binding somewhat scuffed and with the front hinge restored with cloth. First and only edition of a collection of articles on Marienbad. BMC NH, p. 621; Pritzel 3058.
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