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Regensburg, Königlich bayerische botanische Gesellschaft zu Regensburg, 1831-1834. Four volumes in four. 8vo (19.1 x 12.1 cm). Six title-pages, 1131 pp. [Vol. 1 (1831): vi, vi, 324; Vol. 2 (1832) viii, vii, 288; Vol. 3 (1833) xii, 240; Vol. 4 (1834): viii, 232]. Contemporary (original?) speckled boards with contemporary handwritten paper label on the spines. = Rare start of this little-known botanical journal published by the royal botanical society of Regensburg, in Bavaria. The names of the editors are not present on the titles of the first three volumes. The German botanist David Heinrich Hoppe (1760-1846) was a founder of the society. His fellow botanist August Emanuel Fürnrohr (1804-1861) was one of his pupils. The first two volumes were published in two parts, hence there are six instead of four title pages. Provenance: old cancellation stamp of the Museo Hungarico on titles and round stamps of the Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum on title page versos and first contents pages. Uncut. tear in one leaf in the third volume; some scattered foxing; otherwise, very good set. Not in Cat. BM(NH) Serial Titles (4th Ed.).