Linné´s Flora Lapponica in the second edition
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1 900 SEK
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2 500 SEK
Description
LINNÉ, CARL VON. Flora Lapponica, exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale, collectas in itinere impensis Soc. Reg. Scient. Upsaliensis, anno 1732. instituto. Additis synonymis, et locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus et figuris rariorum, viribus medicatis et oeconomicis plurimarum. Editioi altera, aucta et emendata. Studio & cura Jacobi Edvardi Smith. Londini (impensis B. White et filiorum, typis J. Davis) 1792.
8:o. (220x135 mm). (4, last blank), (i)-l, (1)-390, (16), (24) pp. Engraved frontispiece A. van der Laan after M. Hofman (some spotting to margin), 12 engraved folding plates (all, some foxing, some offsetting).
20th century brown half leather, partly worn, part of outer joint split, richly gilt spine with title label, partly untrimmed with red upper edge (Hedberg). Text with slight foxing, partly dampstained with some scent of damp.
Soulsby 281 (wrong collation). Hulth 22.
Second enlarged edition, edited by J.E. Smith. The first edition appeared in 1737. The engravings printed from the original copper plates.
Condition
See text
Auktionsnummer:
578102
Date:
2018-10-12