Monasterii [Munster], Frid. Regensberg, 1824. 8vo (18.3 x 10.7 cm). xiv, 332, [i] pp. Original printed boards.

A seldom-seen local flora of Westphalia, in Germany. The author, Clemens Maria Franz (Friedrich) Freiherr von Bönninghausen (1785-1864) "...was a lawyer, Dutch and Prussian civil servant, agriculturalist, botanist, physician and pioneer in the field of homeopathy. He was decorated as Knight in the Légion d'honneur. ... In 1816, at the reorganization of the provinces Rhineland and Westphalia, he was appointed as president of the Court of Justice and General Commissaries of the land register of North Rhine-Westphalia. The many travelling with this position gave him an excellent opportunity to study the flora and he published a book about it, named: Prodromus florae Monasteriensis Westphalorum, Phanerogamia" (Wikipedia). Boards somewhat rubbed, previous author's names on the front pastedown (H. Lutz) and front free endpaper (W. Bierbradt), and the small stamp of Herbert Ant in the top margin of the front free endpaper, bottom edge, and title. ADDED: A folded, handmade map of Westphalia, and an 11 pp. handwritten booklet titled Ortsverzeichnis züm Prodromus, listing alphabetically the localities to which von Bönninghausen referred. This addition probably was the work of the malacologist and ecologist Herbert Ant (1933-2010), who lived in Hamm, Westphalia. Boards a bit rubbed, a typed translation of a part of a Latin species description, on inferior paper, inserted between pp. 158-159 resulting in toning of the pages, otherwise a very good copy. Pritzel, 928; Stafleu and Cowan, 586.