Amman, J. Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium Icones et Descriptiones collectae. Petropoli, ex Typographia Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. 4to. pp. (8), 210, (2), (14), with 35 engraved plates on 34 folding sheets. Paeonia ?


Hunt 511: "Johann Amman was a Swiss ... who studied under Herman Boerhave at Leyden and worked as curator for Sir Hans Sloane and became professor of botany at St Petersburg. He made notable contributions to Russian taxonomy under Peter the Great and his immediate successors; and thus was a precursor of Gmelin and Pallas". An important Russian flora.