Saussure, Nicolas Théodore de

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation.

Paris 1804. 8vo. viii + 328 + viii pp. + 1 folding engraved plate + 16 folding tables. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. First edition. “This work, which took seven years to write, laid the foundations of a new science, phytochemistry. Saussure examined the chief active components of plants, their synthesis, and their decomposition. He specified the relationships between vegetation and the environment and here, too, did pioneering work in what became the fields of pedology and ecology” (DSB). DSB, 12, pp. 123–4. Duveen, p. 531. Pritzel 8051.

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