Martyn´s Thirty-eight plates... Linnaeus system
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LINNAEANA. MARTYN, THOMAS. Thirty-eight Plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus´s System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany. London (printed for J. White ) 1788.
8vo. (3), iv-vi, 1-72 . I1)-8 (catalogue of books) pp. 38 handcoloured engraved plates (all, some minor foxing). Later (20th century) brown half leather, nearly uncut. Some foxing or discolouring from plates. Signature of Magnus Fries on first endpaper. First edition.
Nissen BBI 1292.
Provenance: Collecta Friesia. Elias Fries (1794-1878), famous Swedish mycologist and botanist. His most important work was "Systema mycologicum" published in 1821-32, Thore M. Fries (1832-1913), Robert Fries (1876-1966), Magnus Fries (1917-1987), Robert Fries (b. 1952).
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