Dr Wolfius (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The true cause of the wonderful multiplication of corn with some general remarks upon the nature of trees and plants by Dr.Wolfius, Member of the Royal Societies of London and Berlin, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Marboug. viii, 50pp with an engraved frontis plate. The paper is aged but in good condition. Modern binding in full morocco with new end papers.

with an attractive engraved frontispiece of a prodigious corn (wheat) plant, frontispiece offset onto title, woodcut head and tailpieces and initials, pp. [viii], 50, 8vo, modern calf backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, very good. First edition and a very attractive copy of this scarce early eighteenth-century treatise on corn, by the eminent German philosopher Christian Freiherr von Wolff (1679-1754). In his chapter 'of blighted corn', he explains how he has taken blackened corn husks and kept them in his bedchamber. This is said to be a translation of Erläuterung der Entdeckung der wahren Ursach von der wunderbahren Vermehrung des Getredes, but we have found no trace of a German publication either in WorldCat or KVK. (ESTC T131469).