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KALM´S TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA (3). KALM, PEHR. (3). En resa til Norra America, på kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallning, och publici kostnad. I-III. Stockholm (Lars Salvius) 1753-(1761).

8vo (170x105 mm). (24), 484, (20), (2), 526, (22), 538, (14) pp. Title to part III replaced with handwritten leaf. 1 engraved folding plate in part 3, Cohoss forss eller fall vid Mohaks flod (all, minor foxing), and some woodcuts in the text, of which two full-page.
Worn contemporary half calf, vol. III not uniform with the preceding. Some minor stains. Title of part II torn in inner margin. Owner´s signature of M. Sundevall in the first 2 volumes, exlibris of Arvid Wallgren. 3 volumes.

Schiötz 511a***. Pritzel 4572. Krok 337:8. Original and first Swedish edition.
Kalm (1717-79) wrote his important 18th century account of American natural history. He travelled in America (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Canada) between 1748 and 1751 "with a view of introducing plants for food, medicine or manufacture in Sweden" (The Linnaeus catalogue, Sandbergs bokhandel, 1957). Among other tasks assigned him by Linnaeus, was to find strains of Morus rubra, a plant which should supply food for silk worms.

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Datum:

2020-01-27