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‎Tal, om Märkwärdigheter uti insecterne, hållt för Wettenscaps Academien uti Auditorio Illustri på första Præsidentskapet aflades 1739. D. 3. October. - [LINNAEUS' VIEW OF NATURE]‎

‎Stockholm, Pet. Momma, 1739. Small 8vo. Preserved in covers of older blindstamped golden paper. Title-page a bit soiled and with old owner's names (one of them crossed out, the other one being Roland Martin). A small restoration to lower blank margin of title-page. Woodcut initial at beginning and woodcut end-vignette. (18) pp.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition, first issue (with an excellent provenance) of Linnaeus' seminal speech which has gone down in history as one of the most famous and influential summations on the economy of nature - demonstrated by ""curiosities among insects"". With poetical eloquence, Linnaeus shows us the wonder of the small creature that is the insect and beautifully ties together the nature of the world that we live in, providing to all living things a means and an end. Published merely four years after the groundbreaking first edition of the ""Systema Natura"" - and two decades before the definitive 10th edition of it - Linnaeus, in this epochal speech, points us to the fact that only with the ""Systema Natura"" had the true nature of the insect been discovered, revealing to us also the true wonder of nature. This groundbreaking speech was given at the inauguration of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739. Linnaeus himself was one of the founders of the academy"" this foundational speech not only marks the beginning of the world-changing Academy of Sciences, being the first in a long series of presiding speeches that were given four times a year (when the Academy chose a new chairman), it also marks an epoch in the theory of natural history. The frequent reprinting of the speech bears witness to its epochal character and the importance it came to hold for Linnaeus himself. The extremely scarce first issue was printed by Momma in a poor antiqua setting, mixing three different styles, and the last three pages are in a smaller font. New issues appeared in Swedish in 1747 and 1752, the speech was reprinted in Latin numerous times in different issues of the ""Amoenitates"", and it was translated into English and German. When occupying oneself with the greatest modern zoologist, Carl von Linné, the founder of binominal nomenclature, one rarely comes across references to his philosophical theory of the world. Unlike many modern thinkers, 18th century scientists and philosophers did not find the notion of God as ruler of the Universe incompatible with hard scientific facts. On the contrary, the relationship between God and Nature was an issue of crucial importance to many natural scientists of the period. The present speech constitutes the most important declaration of Linnaeus' thoughts on the subject, presenting him as what we would call a ""physicotheologist"". By means of the ""curiosities among insects"", Linnaeus here presents Nature as a single, self-regulating global entity - an entity that is a wonder created by God. The present publication constitutes one of the most personal works that Linnaeus ever wrote and provides with a direct insight into his entire world view - the view of the world that enabled us to properly classify and systematize all living things. It is not least due to the present work that Linnaeus was so widely admired by the greatest of his contemporaries. In his own time he was not only admired for his great scientific accomplishments, he became famous for wider cultural reasons and for the moral qualities that understream his scientific work. That is the main reason why he was considered a hero by the likes of Rousseau and why the likes of Goethe made debating Linnaeus a pastime in fashionable Romantic circles. The work is of the greatest scarcity. OCLC lists merely six copies in libraries world-wide, two of which are in the US: Kansas State University and North Carolina State University. The remaining four copies are in: Sweden, France, UK, and The Netherlands. ROLAND MARTIN (1726-1788) was prominent physician, who was a student of Linnaeus. He studied at the University of Uppsala and here defended his dissertation in 1745 (under Linnaeus). He was nominated professor of medicine twice, but refused both times. He was considered an excellent teacher and a great physician, but he was a controversian man and caused dramatic debacle when he left the Collegium medicum and joined the Societas chirurgica (only to return in 1766, with a tarnished reputation). Hult, p. 31-32.BMC 3141Soulsby 1341‎

‎Lapplands Resa Ar 1732 - Caroli Linnæi iter Lapponicum : dei gratia institutum 1732‎

‎ Wahlström & Widstrand 15 x 22,5 Couverture rigide Stockholm 1957 In-8, reliure demi-chagrin à coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné de fleurons et de filets dorés, auteur et titre dorés, 280 pp. Sumptibus Regiæ Societatis Literariæ et Scientiarum ad historiam naturalem Laponiae dilucidandam instructum qvoad lapides, terras, aqvas, herbas, arbores, gramina, muscos, qvadrupedia, aves, pisces et insecta imo hominum morbos, salutes, diaetam, mores, vivendique rationem. Avreste den 12 Maji, kom igen den 10 Oktober Uppsala. Redigerad av Magnus von Platen och Carl-Otto von Sydow. Illustrerad av Gunnar Brusewitz. Relation de voyage du suédois Carl von Linné (1707-1778) en Laponie. Texte en suédois. Couverture conservée. Carte et annexes (Commentaires botaniques en relation avec le texte / Notes explicatives "Förklaringar"). Exemplaire en très bon état.(ThB74) ‎

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‎Skånska resa förrättad år 1749‎

‎ Wahlström & Widstrand 15 x 22,5 Couverture rigide Stockholm 1959 In-8, reliure demi-chagrin à coins, dos à quatre nerfs ornés de fleurons et de filets dorés, 563 p. Carte, index, planches. Skånska resa, på höga öfwerhetens befallning förrättad år 1749. Med rön och anmärkningar uti oeconomien, naturalier, antiquiteter, seder, lefnadssätt. Med tillhörige figurer. Redigerad av Carl-Otto von Sydow. Illustrerad av Gunnar Brusewitz. Texte en suédois. Relation de voyage du suédois Carl von Linné (1707-1778) en Scanie en 1749. Très bon exemplaire.(ThB74) ‎

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‎Öländska och Gotländska resa 1741.‎

‎ Wahlström & Widstrand 15 x 22,5 Couverture rigide Stockholm 1962 In-8, reliure demi-chagrin à coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné de fleurons et de filets dorés, auteur et titre dorés, 390 pp. Öländska och gotländska resa på riksens höglovlige ständers befallning förrättad år 1741. Med anmärkningar uti ekonomien, naturalhistorien, antikviteter etc. Med åtskillige figurer. Redigerad av Carl-otto von Sydow. Illustrationer av Gunnar Brusewitz. Relation de voyage du suédois Carl von Linné (1707-1778) en Suède aux îles dÅland et Gotland. Texte en suédois. Couverture conservée. 2 cartes, important index, planches, Notes explicatives "Förklaringar"). Exemplaire en très bon état.(ThB74) ‎

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‎Bibliotheca Botanica. Recensens libros plus mille de plantis huc usque editos, secundum systema auctorum naturale in classes, ordines, genera et species dispositos, additis editionis loco, tempore, forma, lingua caet. Pars 1Edito Nova Multo Correctior. - [THE FIRST BOTANICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ARRANGED BY SUBJECT]‎

‎Halae Sailcae [i.e. Stockholm]: Apud Io. Gottl. Bierwirth, 1747. 8vo. Contemporary marbled paper binding with handwritten paper label to spine. Occational signs of wear. Overall a very nice copy. [XIV], 124, [8] pp.‎

‎Second edition of Linnaeus' important ""Bibliotheca Botanica"" (without the Fundamentorum Botanica, which appeared simultaneously), his highly important, elaborate classification system for his catalogue of books. This significant work constitutes the first botanical bibliography arranged by subject and the work in which the term ""methodists"" is coined. ""The Bibliotheca is a concise history of botany in a dry, enumerative, but very efficient style. Linnaeus describes the development of botanical science by subdividing the authors in various categories and by adding several statements on the main events in human affairs without which the growth of botany as a science cannot be understood. The often enlightening and amusing names for the various categories of botanists show not only a good knowledge of the literature, but also an awareness of the fact that botanical history is human history."" (Frans Stafleu).The ""Bibliotheca Botanica"" is complete in itself. It was contemplated as the first part of a planned Bibliotheca medica (which he never wrote). It first appeared in 1736, and the present second edition constitutes a reprint of the first edition of the text, with the addenda and errata of Linnaeus inserted in their place. The work appeared again in 1751. Soulsby: 251. ‎

‎Systema Naturae. Per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. 3 vols. - [THE BASIS OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE]‎

‎Holmiae, Laurentius Salvius, 1758-59 + 1768. 8vo. Beautifully bound in two recent full mottled calf bindings, in pastiche, with five raised bands, and gilt title-labels to spine. Gilt borders to boards and blindstamped ornamental borders to inside of boards. Title-page of volume 1 with two neatly repaired tears, no loss. Very discreet stamp in blind to title-page (Boston Society Natural History). A few leaves lightly brownspotted, otherwise exceptionally clean (vol. 1 presumably cleaned). All in all a lovely copy. (4), 823, (1, -errata, being p. (824))" (4) pp, pp. 825-1384 + 236, (20, -Index) pp. + 3 folded, engraved plates.‎

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‎The rare seminal tenth edition of Linnaeus' main work (here bound together with the 3rd part, published 10 years later), being the most important edition of this foundational work, as ""[i]t is in this edition that Linnaeus carried out the definitive plan of binominal nomenclature, with diagnosis and synonyms, for the fist time, including the generic and the trivial names, which together form the specific name of each animal. This edition has therefore been accepted as ""the basis of zoological nomenclature"". (Sandberg no. 12). ""Systema Natura"" is considered the bible of natural history, and with the definitive tenth edition of it, it founded modern zooloical nomenclature and changed the science more profoundly than any other work before or after. ""During his lifetime, Linnaeus exerted an influence in his field - botany and natural history - that had had few parallels in the history of science. Driven by indomitable ambition and aided by an incredible capacity for work, he accomplished the tremendous task that he had set for himself in his youth: the establishment of new systems for the three kingdoms of nature to facilitate the description of all known animals, plants, and minerals."" (D.S.B. VIII:374).""He compiled this work, consisting only of seven folio leaves, as a first outline of what in its further development became the foundation of botanical and zoological classification systems. Linné was first and foemost a systematist, subordinating all botanical problems to that of classification. He established the principles of class, order, genus and species for all plants and animals... The tenth edition of the Systema Naturae, 1758, is his final version of the system by which many plants and animals are still named to this day with references ""Linnaeus"", ""Linn."" or ""L."" attached."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 114).""In this edition, the binomial system previously emplyed by Linnaeus in the work entitled ""Museum Tessinianum"" (1753) was extended in its application to all the kingdoms of nature"" the Artedian classification of fishes, adopted in the earlier editions, was superseded by the familiar Linnaean system, and the cetaceans were for the first time eliminated from the class of fishes and grouped with the viviparous quadrupeds under the new class name Mammalia."" (Soulsby).""TENTH, AND DEFINITIVE, EDITION"" a scarce and highly important printing, which standardized zoological taxonomy and nomenclature and utilized binomial nomenclature (generic coupled with a specific epithet) throughout. In this edition, Linnaeus became the first naturalist to recognize whales as mammals."" (Freilich-sale, no. 358).Sandberg 12" Norman 1:1359 Soulsby 58 Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4794 Hulth p.6. ‎

‎Caroli Linnaei Diaeta Naturalis 1733 - Linnés tankar om ett naturligt levnadssätt.‎

‎ Arvid H.J. Uggla 15,5 x 23 Uppsala 1958 In-8, reliure demi-veau vert sombre à coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné de fleurons et de filets dorés, auteur et titre dorés, plats recouverts de papier marbré, 222 p., planches hors-texte. Couverture conservée. Texte latin et suédois. "Manuscrit sur la diététique, écrit en plusieurs épisodes à au moins deux périodes différentes de la vie de Linné: en 1733, et après son retour du continent en 1738. «Diaeta naturalis» doit beaucoup à la tournée de Linné en Laponie en 1732, où il a observé le mode de vie plus sain des Lapons, dans un environnement naturel non perturbé. Le manuscrit a été commencé un an plus tard pour les cours particuliers de Linné sur la diététique et le mode de vie naturel. «Diaeta naturalis» est resté inachevé". Elégante reliure et intérieur en parfait état. Très bel exemplaire. PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST ‎

‎Anmärkningar öfwer Amaryllis den Sköna.‎

‎Stockholm, 1742. 8vo. Senere papirsomslag. Udsnit af Kungl. Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 1742. Apr. Maj. Jun. Pp. 93-102 samt 1 stor foldet kobberstukket planche‎

‎The paper contains Linné's original description of Amaryllis belladonna with the large plate showing its successive growth.‎

‎Philosophia Botanica in qva explcantur Fundamenta Botanica cum Definitionibus partium, Exemplis terminorum, Observationibus rariorum. Adiectis Figuris aeneis. Editio Secunda...Curante Johanne Gottlieb Gleditsch.‎

‎Berlin, C.F. Rimburgi, 1780. Completely uncut in recent full cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Engraved portrait of Linné as frontispiece (engr. by L. Glassbuch). (6),362 pp. and 11 engraved plates. Some quires a bit browned and with a few brownspots.‎

‎Second edition. Its substance formed the subject aof Linné's botanical lectures in the years 1746-48. - Stafleu & Cowan 4760,7 - Soulsby 445 - Hulth p.79.‎

‎Wästgöta Resa.‎

‎ Thulin & Ohlson 14 x 21 Göteborg 1928 In-8, reliure demi-cuir rouge marbré à petits coins, dos à quatre nerfs, auteur et titre dorés, plats recouverts de papier marbré, XVI-314, 5 tables dépliantes, Register, Utgivarens förord och anmärkningar-V-carte dépliante-Li-[3]. På riksens högloflige ständers befallning. Förrättad år 1746 med anmärkningar uti Oeconomien, Naturkunnogheten, Antiquiteter, Inwånarnes seder och Lefnads-sätt. Nytryck efter orginalupplagan 1747 med textkommentar av Natanael Beckman. Edition critique du voyage du célèbre botaniste suédois en Gothie Occidentale (Westrogothie) entrepris par ordre des Etats du Royaume en 1746, avec des remarques relatives à l'économie, la physique, les antiquités, les moeurs et la manière de vivre des habitants enrichi de tailles douces...Bonne reliure et intérieur en parfait état. Très bon exemplaire.PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST ‎

‎Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica, cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum. Adiectis figuris aeneis.‎

‎Berolini [Berlin], Christiani Friderici Himburgi, 1780. In-8°, [6]-362p. Reliure demi-veau à coins, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre noire (partiellement éffacée).‎

‎Seconde édition en latin, revue et augmentée par Iohanne Gottlieb Gleditsch. Avec 11 planches gravées dépliantes, mais sans le portrait gravé en frontispice. Quelques traces d'usage à la reliure, rousseurs, néanmoins bon exemplaire.‎

‎Systema Vegetabilium secundum Classes ordines, generi species cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima qvarta. Praecedente longe auctior et correctior. Curante Io. Andrea Murray.‎

‎Göttingen, Jo. Christ. Dieterisch, 1784. Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back and titlelabel in leather, gilt. A crack in leather on back (not broken). Light wear to spine ends. Small stamp on title and endpaper. XX,987,(17) pp. some yellowing and brownspots.‎

‎This 14th edition is revised and augmented by J.A. Murray.- Soulsby no 583. - Hult p. 144.‎

‎Glömska af alla Substantiva och i synnerhet namn. - [APHASIA FIRST DESCRIBED]‎

‎[Stockholm], 1745. 8vo. Extracted from ""Kgl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar"", 1745, 6. In recent stiff paper wrappers. Uncut, nice and clean. Pp. 116-17. [Pp. 115-18 present].‎

‎Seminal first printing of the first actual description of (speech order) aphasia.Linné here describes the case of a patient of his, who suffered from gout, which in the fall of 1742 went to his brain instead of his feet. For the first time, we here find an actual description of speech order aphasia, as Linné states ""... he seemed to be raving... he was sort of speaking his own language, having his own names for all words... He had forgotten all the nouns, so that he did not remember one single one" not even the name of his children, his wife or himself, let alone anybody else. And what was even more strange, if you mentioned something he wanted to say, he said yes" but if you asked him to repeat it he replied ""can nothing"", when he saw someone's name, he knew who it was, and when he wanted to mention one of his colleagues, he pointed to the Catalogum Lectionum, where the name was mentioned."" Linné's conclusion is: ""Thus, he had lost two things"" first the memory of all nouns, and second, the ability to name the nouns."" [Own translation from Swedish]. This condition lasted till about Christmas, and the following year, the patient died.The present work is highly interesting in more than one respect. Fist it is of great importance as being the first actual description of speech aphasia, and the first description of aphasia to be given accurately by a physician (vague descriptions of something that might be similar had occurred in blurred forms in the 16th century, and it may therefore be considered not quite accurate, when Garrison and Morton state of the present treatise ""Aphasia first described""). The year before Linné's treatise, the great Enlightenment philosopher Biambattista Vico had reported the first known case of a verb production aphasia, and when Linné the following year describes the first reported case of impaired noun production, we actually here, within one year, establish an identification and documentation of both verbal- and noun- dissociation of lexical category retrieval, and thus the actual foundation of aphasia-research.""Anomia, especially word-finding difficulty affecting nouns and other substantive words, was well documented before epochal observations of Paul Broca ushered in the modern era of aphasiology. A man who lost the ""memory of all substantives"" as well as the ""power to name the substantives"" was reported in 1745 by Linnaeus, the Swedish botany taxonomist."" (Kirshner, ""Handbook of Neurological Speech and Language Disorders, p. 166).""SPEECH DISORDER Aphasia was described by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) in 1745 and the site of the lesion in the brain causing it was suggested by Jean Baptiste Boulland in 1825."" (Sebastian, ""A Dictionary of the History of Medicine"").Apart from those two aspects of the present article, it also raises highly important questions within the fields of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and logic. Aphasia raises essential questions about the relation between brain and language, a theme which has occupied almost all modern analytical philosophers and logicians (e.g. Wittgenstein etc.), and it thus plays an important role in the area of research of these disciplines.Garrison and Morton: 4616" Hulth: p. 44.‎

‎Flora Lapponica exhibens Plantas per Lapponiam Crescentes, secundam Systema Sexuale Collectas in Itinere... Additis Synonymis, & Locis Natalibus Omnium, Descriptionibus & Figuris Rariorum, Viribus Medicatis & Oeconomicis Plurimarum.‎

‎Amsterdam, Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf. Light wear to top of spine. Light wear along fronthinge. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece. Titlepage in red/black. (40),372,(38) pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Printed on good paper. Internally clean and fine.‎

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‎Scarce first edition of this highly important work, which is one of the first in which Linné worked out his binomial nomenclature, being of ""prime importance for the nomenclature of Arctic-Alpine species"".On May 12th 1732, Linnaeus set out on his journey into Lapland, returning to Uppsala on October 10th, after adventures in snow and sleet, discovering 'novelties in all three kingdoms of nature', including many new plants. All this he recorded in diary and catalogue... Linnaeus worked on the present volume during his sojourn in Leyden and at the Clifford estate at Hartecamp in Holland. A Society was formed at Amsterdam to defray the expenses of the plates.., and the 'Flora Lapponica' came forth in 1737, just ahead of the 'Geneve plantarum' and the 'Hortus Cliffortianus'. Botanists had waited for it expectantly, and they received it with accaim. (Hunt No. 502).""The journey was the most adventurous that Linnaeus ever made" it has been assessed by his fellow-countrymen as the most fruitful single scientific expedition ever made in Sweden both for its immediate botanical results and its influence on Linnaeus's later career. It led to the publication in 1737 of his Flora Lapponica which is of prime importance for the nomenclature of Arctic-Alpine species" Linnaeus's Lapland specimens, on which this was based, are in Paris."" (The Linnaean Correspondance).Hulth: p. 21 - Soulsby: No. 279.‎

‎Flora Svecica exhibens plantas per regnum Sveciae crescentes, systematice (...) Editio secunda aucta et emendata. - [LINNÉ ON SWEDISH PLANTS]‎

‎Stockholm, Laurentii Salvii, 1755. 8vo. In a bit later full calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Extremities with a bit of wear, boards and hinges with a few repairs. Previous owners names to front free end-paper and title-page. Internally with light occassional brownspotting and last few leaves with dampstain in lower margin. (4), 464, (30) pp. + 1 folded plate. ‎

‎Second expanded edition of Linné's account of Swedish plants, being the first full account of the plants growing in Sweden and one of the first examples of the Flora in the modern idiom, here expanded with 56 plants compared to the first edition from 1745. The work helped cement Linnaeus as one of the most influential figures in the history of biology and botany. Linné struggled with the enormous undertaking of cataloging all of the world’s plant and animal species and giving each its correct place in the system. Linné started modestly with his native land: Flora suecica containing 1140 species, appeared in 1745 and Fauna suecica followed a year later. Soulsby 409 Hulth p.44 ‎

‎Skånska Resa, På Höga Öfwerhetens Befallning Förrättad År 1749. Med Rön och Anmärkningar Uti Oeconomien, Naturalier, Antiquiteter, Seder, Lefnads-sätt. Med Tilhörige Figurer.‎

‎Stockholm, Lars salvius, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris (Thore Virgin) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper and ""Thore Virgin / Stockholm d. 7. dec. 1912."" to upper outer corner of front free end-paper. Title-page with marginal browning, otherwise a fine copy. (10), XIV, 434, (34) pp. + 1 folded map and 6 plates.‎

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‎First edition, second issue, here in an interesting interim state with “Gödselen” on p. 26 (indicating the second issue) but with p. 25 misspelled as “52” not called for in neither first nor second issue. “Linnaeus’ research work during his mature years began with trips to various Swedish provinces. By order of the parliament, which wanted an inventory of all the natural resources of the country, during three summers in the 1740’s Linnaeus traveled through selected areas to describe them and to search for dyestuffs, minerals, clay, and other economically useful substances. His reports of these expeditions were published as Ölandska och gothländska resa (1745), Västgöta resa (1747), and Skånska resa (1751), all written in Swedish. Nothing escaped his attention on his travels on horseback—plants and insects, runic stones and other ancient remnants, farmers working in the fields and meadows, the changes in the weather. His prose style was simple and strong, sometimes rising to lyrical outbursts or spiced with effective similes.” (DSB) ""Baron C. Hårleman, who had borne the expenses of Linnaeus's expedition to Skåne, had the chance to see the proofs to at least the beginning of the SKÅNSKA RESA. There he read (on p. 26) with indignation that Linnaeus gave his blessing to the old Swedish custom of cleaning the ground by setting fire to the stubble (""svedjande"" - a practice that he himself had condemned in print). Linnaeus decided to have a new version printed in which the offended passage would be replaced by some innocuos observation on manure (""Gödselen""). A fold was therefore printed as part of the final sheet of the book with an article on ""Gödselen"" instead of the article on ""Svedjor"". The binder was supposed to cancel the fold with the article on ""Svedjor"" and replace it with the inner fold from the final sheet. In very few copies this was not done."" (Björck & Börjesson Cat. 512). Hulth P. 81.Soulsby 210 ‎

‎Skånska Resa, På Höga Öfwerhetens Befallning Förrättad År 1749. Med Rön och Anmärkningar Uti Oeconomien, Naturalier, Antiquiteter, Seder, Lefnads-sätt. Med Tilhörige Figurer.‎

‎Stockholm, Lars salvius, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine forming 6 compartments. Ex-libris (Thorild Wulff) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Leather on spine and hinges a bit brittle, lower 4 cm of front hinge split, otherwise a fine copy. (10), XIV, 434, (34) pp. + 1 folded map and 6 plates.‎

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‎First edition, second issue, with “Gödselen” on p. 26 (indicating the second issue). “Linnaeus’ research work during his mature years began with trips to various Swedish provinces. By order of the parliament, which wanted an inventory of all the natural resources of the country, during three summers in the 1740’s Linnaeus traveled through selected areas to describe them and to search for dyestuffs, minerals, clay, and other economically useful substances. His reports of these expeditions were published as Ölandska och gothländska resa (1745), Västgöta resa (1747), and Skånska resa (1751), all written in Swedish. Nothing escaped his attention on his travels on horseback—plants and insects, runic stones and other ancient remnants, farmers working in the fields and meadows, the changes in the weather. His prose style was simple and strong, sometimes rising to lyrical outbursts or spiced with effective similes.” (DSB)""Baron C. Hårleman, who had borne the expenses of Linnaeus's expedition to Skåne, had the chance to see the proofs to at least the beginning of the SKÅNSKA RESA. There he read (on p. 26) with indignation that Linnaeus gave his blessing to the old Swedish custom of cleaning the ground by setting fire to the stubble (""svedjande"" - a practice that he himself had condemned in print). Linnaeus decided to have a new version printed in which the offended passage would be replaced by some innocuos observation on manure (""Gödselen""). A fold was therefore printed as part of the final sheet of the book with an article on ""Gödselen"" instead of the article on ""Svedjor"". The binder was supposed to cancel the fold with the article on ""Svedjor"" and replace it with the inner fold from the final sheet. In very few copies this was not done."" (Björck & Börjesson Cat. 512). Hulth P. 81.Soulsby 210 ‎

‎Skånska Resa, På Höga Öfwerhetens Befallning Förrättad År 1749. Med Rön och Anmärkningar Uti Oeconomien, Naturalier, Antiquiteter, Seder, Lefnads-sätt. Med Tilhörige Figurer.‎

‎Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine forming 6 compartments. Ex-libris (Romare) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Corner bumped and boards with scratches. Internally brownpotted. (10), XIV, 434, (34) pp. + 1 folded map and 6 plates and numerous woodcuts in text.‎

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‎First edition, second issue, with “Gödselen” on p. 26 (indicating the second issue). The present work not only describes his botanical observations but also includes reflections on the region's natural history, culture, and landscape. “Linnaeus’ research work during his mature years began with trips to various Swedish provinces. By order of the parliament, which wanted an inventory of all the natural resources of the country, during three summers in the 1740’s Linnaeus traveled through selected areas to describe them and to search for dyestuffs, minerals, clay, and other economically useful substances. His reports of these expeditions were published as Ölandska och gothländska resa (1745), Västgöta resa (1747), and Skånska resa (1751), all written in Swedish. Nothing escaped his attention on his travels on horseback—plants and insects, runic stones and other ancient remnants, farmers working in the fields and meadows, the changes in the weather. His prose style was simple and strong, sometimes rising to lyrical outbursts or spiced with effective similes.” (DSB)""Baron C. Hårleman, who had borne the expenses of Linnaeus's expedition to Skåne, had the chance to see the proofs to at least the beginning of the SKÅNSKA RESA. There he read (on p. 26) with indignation that Linnaeus gave his blessing to the old Swedish custom of cleaning the ground by setting fire to the stubble (""svedjande"" - a practice that he himself had condemned in print). Linnaeus decided to have a new version printed in which the offended passage would be replaced by some innocuos observation on manure (""Gödselen""). A fold was therefore printed as part of the final sheet of the book with an article on ""Gödselen"" instead of the article on ""Svedjor"". The binder was supposed to cancel the fold with the article on ""Svedjor"" and replace it with the inner fold from the final sheet. In very few copies this was not done."" (Björck & Börjesson Cat. 512). Hulth P. 81.Soulsby 210 ‎

‎Öländska och gothländska resa på riksens högloflige ständers befallning förrättad åhr 1741. Med anmarkningar uti oeconomien, natural-historien, antiquiteter &c. med atskillige figurer (Olandska och Gothlåndska resa). - [LINNÉ'S TRAVELS ON GOTLAND AND ÖLAND]‎

‎Stockholm & Upsala, Gottfried Kiesewetter, 1745. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Wear to extremities. Parts of marbled paper to boards worn off and leather to lower compartment on spine missing. Previous owners names to pasted down front end-paper and leaf with dedication. Internally with light occassional brownspotting, but generally a good copy. (14), 344, (30) pp. + 2 maps and 1 plate. ‎

‎First edition of Linné’s famous account of his travels to Gotland and Öland in which his observations of the flora, fauna, and geological features of the two Swedish islands in the Baltic Sea was first presented. Ten days after Linné was appointed Professor at University of Uppsala, he began his expedition to the island provinces of Öland and Gotland with six students from the university to look for plants useful in medicine. First they travelled to Öland and stayed there until late June, when they sailed to Visby in Gotland. Linné and the students stayed on Gotland for about a month, and then returned to Uppsala. During this expedition, they found 100 previously unrecorded plants. Like his ‘Flora Lapponica’ it contained both zoological and botanical observations as well as observations concerning the culture in Öland and Gotland. Soulsby 202Hulth 44‎

‎Caroli v. Linn ... Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm, et proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio novissima.‎

‎Viennae (Wien), Typis Joan. Thomae nob. de Trattern, 1767. [iv], xix, [xx], 580, [44] pp. Small 8vo (12,8 x 20,2 cm.). Comtemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments richly gilt tooled with floral motives; gilt lettered on a brown morocco label; red washed edges.‎

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‎Soulsby , 315; Hulth, 25; Stafleu/Cowan, 3844. A straightforward reprint of the "Genera plantarum editio VI". Page 576 misnumbered 566.-- (Apart from some trifling imperfections, a very attractive copy from library of Monsieur Le Marquis de VICHY).‎

‎Caroli a Linn ... Systema Vegetabilium, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species; cum Characteribus, Differentiis ... Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin ...‎

‎Lugduni, Bernuset, Delamolliire, Falque et Soc., 1796. [ii],xl, 841; [ii], 885-2661, [i, blank] pp. 8vo (13 x 20,45 cm.). Uniformly bound in contempirary full marbled calf, in compartment richly gilt tooled, gilt lettered and numbered on red & brown morocco labels, gilt fillet on the outer edges of sides (top of very slightly worn).‎

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‎ Soulsby 601. A reprint of the 1791 edition, and a [pirated] reissue of Tom.2 of the Lyons edition 1789-1796 of J.F, Gmelin's Systema Naturae. It was published without portrait and without a title for volume one, just a half-title. --(First and last quire of volume 2 with scattered light dampstain, but a very good copy). ‎

‎Systema Vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis‎

‎Parisiis [Paris], e typographia Didot junioris 1798 16 + 821 [i] pp., 15th edition, 21cm., text in Latin, very few occasional foxing, contemporary full leather binding with few minor defects, corners slightly bumped, gilt title and decorations at spine), good condition, W88475‎

‎Amoenitates Academicæ seu Dissertationes variæ Physicæ, Medicæ, Botanicæ, anteac seorsim editæ. Volumen Secundum.‎

‎Holmiæ, Laur. Salvium, 1751. Cont. hvellum. Gilt titlelabel on back. Lightly rubbed. (4),478 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. (The 4 plates has been cut out and are loose, the clear cut showing through the next 2 leaves, no loss of paper).‎

‎First edition of volume 2. The whole collection issued in 10 volumes 1749-90. Hultp. 66.‎