
BONNET, Charles. Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la végétation. Gottingue [Göttingen] and Leide[n], Elie Luzac, 1754
4to, 266 x 204 mm. Contemporary sewing binding. Pp. VIII, 343. engraved title vignette and 31 folded engraved plates by Van der Schley and Wandelaar. Spine with six raised bands. Rich gilt compartments and brown morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt borders, front board with gilt armorial vignette. Later blank endpapers. All edges red. Without the usual browning or foxing and a copy with large margins. Board edges rubbed, rebacked with the old spine laid down and the endpapers replaced, small former owner's inscription on the titlepage. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.
This work marks the beginning of the research of photosynthesis, the basis of the most important metabolistic process on earth. DSB: "For his masterly experimentation Bonnet should be considered one of the first naturalists to investigate experimentally the question of photosynthesis".
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