Black & white photographic illus. with text in red on recto, details on verso. Large-format photographic postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, [1969].

Rare postcard invitation to Richard Long’s second Konrad Fischer exhibition, the first took place the previous September-October. Long (b. 1945) displayed a sculpture composed of pine needles called Sculpture at Konrad Fischer Düsseldorf (1969). A caption for the recto photograph reads: “The River Avon, Bristol: The Pill Ferry crossing at half tide, seen from the Shirehampton side of the river.” S. Richard’s Unconcealed suggests that Giuseppe Panza di Biumo purchased Sculpture at Konrad Fischer… from Gian Enzo Sperone... More

One folding engraved plate & 16 folding printed tables. viii, 327, [8] pp. 8vo, cont. green calf-backed marbled boards (rather well-rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down), flat spine gilt. Paris: Nyon, 1804.

First edition of the work which “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.”–D.S.B., XII, p. 124.

In this work, Saussure systematically applied for the first time the quantitative method of... More