Biologie - Zoologie - - Schreibers,

Biology - Zoology - - Schreibers, Karl Franz Anton Ritter von. Attempt of a complete Conchylienkenntniß after Linnes system. Edited by Karl Schreibers. First volume: Of the snails (and) Second volume: Of the bivalves. In 1 volume. Vienna, Joseph Edlen von Kurzbeck, 1793. 8 pp, 446 pp, 1 p., 5 pp, 416 pp. 21 x 12.5 cm. Black paperback of the time with 2 colored spine labels and spine gilt (a bit rubbed and bumped, corners a bit stronger). First edition of the very rare and early publication of the then 17 year old. - Poggendorff II, 843 (without this title). - The Austrian natural scientist Karl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (1775-1852) came to Vienna at the age of nine, attended the Löwenburgsche Konvikt from 1784 and began studying medicine in 1793. In addition, he was an assistant to the phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall until 1795. After receiving his doctorate in 1798, Schreibers worked as a physician for his uncle and traveled to several European countries in 1799. In 1801 he was made assistant to the professor of natural history at the University of Vienna, Peter Jordan, whose lectures he supplemented from 1802 to 1807. In addition, he also ran a medical practice. Von Schreibers was early engaged in botany, mineralogy as well as zoology and established contacts with European scientists in this field. In 1806 von Schreibers, as successor of the deceased Andreas Stütz, was appointed head of the "k.k.. Hof-Naturalien-Cabinete", whose collection he significantly expanded. In 1809 he was also involved in the removal of the holdings for protection from the Napoleonic troops. The scientific Brazil expedition initiated by Prince Metternich in 1817 was supervised by Schreibers from a scientific point of view. Schreibers ultimately also became the founder of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, which was built up along scientific lines. He also described the meteorite mineral in iron meteorites, which is named after him today as Schreibersite. - Several bookplates, collector's stamp on first title, lightly browned. *