Linneaeus´s Fauna Svecica 1761
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2 400 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Description
LINNAEUS´S FAUNA SVECICA 1761. LINNÉ, CARL VON. Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciæ regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1761.
8vo. 202 x 122 mm. (48), 90, 92-129, 129-576, 576-578. Lacks engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, these substituted with facsimiles. Contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine, sprinkled board papers and red edges. Some light foxing. Owner´s signature on front fly leaf, stamp of Adolph Ulric Grill on title.
Soulsby 1153. Hulth 48. Carlander II, p. 795. Second original edition, with contributions of Linnaeus pupils, enlarged with 816 species. Of particular value for the entomoligical nomenclature.
Adolph Ulric Grill (1752-1797), steel manufacturer at Söderfors bruk and naturalist, member of the Swedish academy of sciences.
Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.
Condition
Se text!
Auktionsnummer:
524256
Date:
2018-03-10