SCHREBER, Johann Christian.

Botanisch-Oeconomische Abhandlung vom Grasbaue. Preisschrift, welche die, in den öconomischen Nachrichten, darauf gesetzte Prämie erhalten … Mit Kupfern.

Leipzig, Johann Wendler, 1763.

Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 154; with two copper engraved figures on one folding plate; a good copy in recent boards.

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First separate edition of this prize-winning treatise on grass and hay, first published in the Ökonomische Nachrichten.

See Güntz II, 211.

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