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COLLECTION OF DISSERTATIONS BY LINNÉ - LINNAEUS (4 volumes). Collections of about 110 dissertations by Linnaeus, 1745-75.

83 dissertations (bound in 4 volumes) with a handwritten index at the end of each volume.
With 11 partly folding engraved plates, 1 table (lacking 8 plates).
19th century green half leather bindings, partly worn, gilt spines in compartments with gilt title, partly with split inner joints (L. W. Levins bokbinderi, Uppsala). Small 4to (c. 190x145 mm).
Some minor dampstaining and foxing. Title to first dissertation in vol. II with cut-out signature. Vol. IV with some minor worming in the beginning. Notes on flyleaves. Bookplate of Birger Strandell.
Some spotting, some with signatures on titles, a few notes in text, a few close cut.
Together with 28 loose dissertations, some of them lacking plates but complete unless noted (see list below).

4 volumes and 28 loose dissertations.

Disserations:
Vol. I. Flora Alpina, 1756, Calendarium florae, 1756, Fungus melititensis, 1755 (1 engraved plate A. Åkerman), Hortus Upsaliensis, 1745 (3 folding engraved plates, plate II missing, replaced by facsimile), Somnus plantarum, 1755 (1 folding engraved plate A. Åkerman), Amphibia Gyllenborgiana, 1745, Metamorphoses plantarum sistens, 1755, Centuria I plantarum, 1755, Chinensia Lagerströmiana, 1754 (1 folding engraved plate A Åkerman), Horticultura Academica, 1754, Mure Indico, 1754 (lacking plate replaced by facsimile), Oves, 1754, Cervus Rheno, 1754, Herbarium Amboinense, 1754, Stationes plantarum, 1754, Censura medicamentorum simplicium vegetabilium, 1753, Plantas officinales, 1753, Herbationes Upsaliensis, 1753 (paper loss on title due to cut-out signature).

Vol. II. Demonstrationes plantarum, 1753, Incrementa botanices, 1753, Vernatio arborum, 1753 (folding table), Noxa insectorum, 1752, Miracula insectorum, 1752 (tear to title), Nutrix noverca, 1752, Hospita insectorum flora, 1752, Cui bono?, 1752, Rhabarbarum, 1752 (1 folding engraved plate, small repair), Noctiluca marina, 1752 (small engraved plate), Odores medicamentorum, 1752, Morbis ex hyeme, 1752, Materia medica, 1752, Euphorbia, 1752, Plante exculantae, 1752, Obstacula medicinae, 1752, Fundamenta ornithologica, 1765 (1 folding engraved plate, text and plate browned), Nova plantarum genera, 1751 (lacking the plate and last leaf, plate replaced by facsimile).

Vol. III. Saporem medicamentorum, 1751, Plantae rariores Camschatcenses, 1750 (1 folding engraved plate), Materia medica in regno animali, 1750, Splachnum, 1750 (1 engraved plate C. Bergqvist), Plantae Surinamenses, 1775 (lacking the folding plate, replaced by facsimile), Febrium intermittentium curatione, 1771, Testaceologiae, 1771 (lacking 2 plates, replaced by facsimiles), Flora Åkeröensis, 1769, Rariora Norvegiae, 1768, Haemoptysi, 1767, Fervidorum et Gelidorum usum paraenesis, 1765 (cut in outer margin), Centuria insectorum rariorum, 1763, Planta Alströmeria, 1762 (lacking plate, replaced by facsimile, some spotting), 1762, Morsura serpentum, 1762 (page 19 with taped new vignette), Diaeta acidularis, 1761, Flora Jamaicensis, 1759, Aer habitabilis, 1759, Generatio Ambigena, 1759, Genera morborum, 1759 (small paperloss in margin of title).

Vol. IV. Plantarum Jamaicensium pugillus, 1759, Arboretum Svecicum, 1759, Ambrosiaca, 1759, Flora Capensis, 1759, Animalia composita, 1759, Plantae tinctoriae, 1759, Instructio peregrinatoris, 1759 (lacking pages 11-14, replaced by facsimiles, spotted), Auctores botanici, 1759, Senium salomoneum, 1759, Medicamenta graveolentia, 1758, Frutetum Svecicum, 1758, Cortice Peruviano, 1758 (signature of title cut-out to margin), Spigelia anthelmia, 1758 (1 engraved plate), Culina mutata, 1757 (some minor holes to text), Transmutatio frumentorum, 1757 (small tear to margin in one leaf), Exanthemata viva, 1757, Buxbaumia, 1757 (lacking engraved plate, engraved vignette on title), Natura Pelagi, 1757, De pane diaetetico, 1757, Flora Danica, 1757, Febris Upsaliensis, 1757, Morbi expeditionis classicæ MDCCLVI, 1757, Phalæna bombyx, 1756 (signature cut-out), De Acetariis, 1756, Specifica Canadensium, 1756, Fundamenta valetudinis, 1756, Pulsus intermittente, 1756.

Loose dissertations:
Theses medicae, 1760 (dampstained), Ledo palustri, 1775, Pandora Et Flora Rybyensis, 1771 (untrimmed with large margins, signature on title, staining and some marginal tears and paperlosses), De varietate ciborum, 1767, Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum, 1746 (2 folding engraved plates, some spotting), Erica, 1770 (1 engraved plate), Nectaria Florum, 1762, Phalæna bombyx, 1756, Demonstrationes plantarum in Horto Upsaliensi MDCCLIII, 1753, Calendarium Floræ, 1756, uncut with wide margins, De venis resorbentibus, 1767 (first 2 leaves loose, trimmed), Nova plantarum genera 1751 (A description of eight new genera of plants brought from North America by Pehr Kalm, lacking the folding plate as usual, wide margins, title with loss of corner, foxing, partly loose, contemporary silver coloured wrapper, (8), (1)-47, (1) pp., De pulsu intermittente, 1756 (wide margins, loose), Instructio musei rerum naturalium, 1753 (some inkstains on first leaf), Termini botanici, 1762, disbound, Dissertatio academica oves breviter adumbrans, 1754 (disbound), Prolepsis plantarum, 1760 (disbound), Dissertatio medico-chirurgica de hirudine, 1764, Ambrosiaca, 1759 (disbound), Florae danicae, 1757 (signature on title, dampstained throughout, mostly to margins), De effectu et cura vitiorum diæteticorum generali, 1766 (partly spotted), Morbi expeditionis classicæ MDCCLVI (disbound), Nova Graminum Genera, 1779 (lacking plate, disbound), Diaeta acidularis, 1761 (dampstained, untrimmed), Generatio ambigena, 1759 (minor notes and corrections on title and last page, in fine original decorated wrapper of brocade paper, upper loose), Genera morborum, 1759 (signature on title F. J. von Aken (1738-98, Swedish pharmacist and chemist), title cut in margin, some spotting, bound with handwritten lecture notes: Herr archiatern Linnaei föreläsningar uti pathologien .... autumn 1759 of 67 pages (some loose, and at the end the edition of the same work published in Uppsala 1763, in an old stained wrapper, signature of Peter Hedenius and later book label of Per Hedenius (receipt from Björck och Börjesson, Stockholm, 4300 SEK in 1982).

And 2 defective disserations, partly stained or with paper losses. Exanthemata viva, 1757, Medicamenta graveolentia, 1758,.

According to the receipt, Strandell bought the 4 bindings at A. Seyler, International book and periodical service, Stockholm, in 1968.

Provenance: Birger Strandell (1901-1993), famous Swedish collector of Linnaeus. Strandell was a Stockholm physician and descendant of Linnaeus who built a private collection of Linnaean materials. A large part of his collections are in The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh USA.

Auktionsnummer:

6360

Datum:

2016-12-20