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LINNÉ, CARL VON. Flora Zeylanica sistens plantas indicas Zeylonæ insulæ, qua olim 1670-1677. lectæ fuere a Paulo Hermanno... denum post 70 annos ab Augusto Günthero... orbi redditæ... Nova genera plantarum Zeylanicarum nuper edita ... per C. M. Dassow... Stockholm (L. Salvius) 1747.

8:o. (5), 6-19 (9), 1-240, (20), (3), 4-14, (2, last page blank) pp. 4 large folding engraved plates (all, pl. I with some replaces in facsimile, some minor spotting).
Modern brown half leather in old style, spine in compartments (bound by G. Christofferson). Title with minor repair to upper margin.

Soulsby 420. Hulth 51. First edition.
Linnaeus worked from the large herbarium which P. Herman collected on Ceylon and which is now in Copenhagen. The Nova Genera describing 43 new genera. are copied from the dissertation by Dassow (last 14 pages).
Provenance: Lars Bergquist (born 1930), Swedish author and diplomat.
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Auktionsnummer:

6018

Datum:

2015-06-16