214 - Roemer, Johann Jacob. *Scriptores de Plantis Hispanicis, Lusitanicis, Brasiliensibus*. Nuremberg, Raspe, 1796. A rare collection of four works on Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian plants, bound in half-leather

Roemer, Johann Jacob. *Scriptores de Plantis Hispanicis, Lusitanicis, Brasiliensibus*. Nuremberg, Raspe, 1796. A rare collection of four works on Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian plants, bound in half-leather Roemer, Johann Jacob. Scriptores de Plantis Hispanicis, Lusitanicis, Brasiliensibus. Nuremberg, Raspe, 1796. Octavo (215 x 135 mm); 184 pages. Calligraphic title page printed in brown ink; 8 copper-engraved plates outside the text, folded at the end of the volume (minimal signs of age). Contemporary rustic cardboard binding (worn). Compiled by Roemer, a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, the works are: the first by the Spanish botanist Ignacio de Asso y del Rio, *Enumeratio stirpium in Aragonia noviter findarum*, while the other three are by the Italian botanist Domenico Vandelli, professor of chemistry and natural history at the University of Coimbra: *Dissertatio de arbore draconis seu Dracaena* from 1768, *Fasciculus plantarum, cum novis generibus et speciebus* from 1771, and *Florae Lusitanicae et Brasiliensis* from 1788. Uncut copy of a rare collection of four works on Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian plants