Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata. Berne, Typographical Society, 1768. 3 parts in 1 volume. The present work contains not only a description of the plants but also of the ecology, in which Haller draws a parallel between the altitudinal zonation of plants and the north-south zonation in the holarctic flora. Additionally, he advocates the study of all phases of the life cycle of plants.
Most plates contain several figures.
In the present copy, the already beautiful plates are in a very fresh impression. The paper is wide-margined, and the binding richly gilt and well preserved. Ex-libris of Beat Rudolph von Tavel on inside front cover, marginal annotations in a contemporary hand. Desirable, clean copy on wide-margined paper of this important botanical work with the plates in fresh impression. Paris, Charles Picquet, 1824.