Linné´s famous Flora Lapponica in first edition
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LINNÉ, CARL VON. Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes... collectas in itinere... a(nno) 1732 instituto. Additis synonymis, & locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus & figuris rariorum, viribus medicatis & oeconomicis plurimarum. Amsterdam (S. Schouten) 1737.
8:o. (40, 1 blank), (1)-372, (38) pp. Engraved frontispiece A. van der Laan after M. Hofman, printed title in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates (all, some foxing, mainly to the margins).
Contemporary brown full leather, restored to joints and spine, inner joints reinforced, red speckled edges. Tightly bound. Only some slight foxing. Engraved bookplate of F. Hutcheson.
Soulsby 279 (wrong collation) and 3121 for the frontispiece. Hulth 21. Tullberg 276 (portrait of Linnaeus resting outside tent). First edition.
"100 new genera are descirbed according to the new sexual system, and 58 of the rarest species are reproduced" (Sandbergs bokhandel, 1957, catalogue 12).
Provenance: Lars Bergquist (born 1930), Swedish author and diplomat.
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Auktionsnummer:
6013
Datum:
2015-06-16