[Botany] Ardène (J.P.R. d'). Tractat von den Ranunkeln

worinnen nebst andere physischen Wahrnehmungen auch zum Feldbau und zur Gärtnerey gehörige nützliche Anmerkungen vorkommen. Aus dem Französizchen übersetzt von D.G.L.H. (G.L. Huth). Nuremb., Raspichen Buchhandlung (G.N. Raspe), 1754, (14),460,(20) p., w. engr. frontisp. (printed in red like the title-p.) and 6 large fold. plates of which 5 cont. handcol., simple cont. boards. Sm. wormhole at the beginning, sl. affecting the frontisp. in lower margin, closed tear in the final plate, in all a very good copy.

Rare first edition of this German translation of this work devoted to ranunculi (a genus comprising species of toxic flowering plants) by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d'ardène. The work deals w. the history of ranunculi and how they got their name, their physical appearance and their cultivation (soil, watering, sunlight and how to take care of aphids and diseases).