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ZORN, Johannes (1739-1799)]. Dreyhundert auserlesene Amerikanische Gewächse. Nuremberg: Raspischen Buchhandlung, 1789-86-87-88. 6 volumes in 3, 8° (209 x 130mm). 300 hand-coloured engraved plates after Louise Römer. (Some light spotting and offsetting, light dampstaining to last two leaves.) Contemporary diced russia gilt (worn, some covers detached). Provenance : Kenneth K. Mackenzie -- Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate, dated 1934, noting Mackenzie's bequest of the book to the Society) -- Robert de Belder (purchased from the Horticultural Society in 1981). Most of the plates in this attractive compendium of South and Central American plants derive from Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's Selectarum stirpium Americanarum Historia , first published in 1763. The title to the first volume is more usually dated 1785. Nissen BBI 2204; Stafleu & Cowan VII, 18.748. Anton Johann KROCKER (1744-1823). Flora Silesiaca . Breslau: sumptibus G.T. Korn, 1787-1790. 2 volumes (only, of 4) bound in 4: (3 text volumes in two, and one plate volume), 8° (187 x 110mm). 97 hand-coloured engraved plates. (Text spotted and somewhat browned.) Contemporary speckled calf, two titled original wrappers folded and bound in as titles to two parts of plate volume, gilt edges (rebacked). Provenance : British Museum (stamp and 1831 duplicate sale stamp) -- G.K. Cowlishaw (bookplate). Rare. Cf. Nissen BBI 1105; cf. Stafleu & Cowan II, 3952. (7)