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CARL ALEXANDER CLERCK (1709-1765)
Svenska Spindlar uti sina hufvud-slagter indelte... Aranei Suecici, descriptionibus et figuris... illustrati. Stockholm: Literis Laur. Salvii, 1757. 4 (245 x 192mm). 6 hand-coloured folding engraved plates by Carl Bergquist after Eric Borg, mounted engraved headpiece by Bergquist after L.Gottman. (Light old dampstaining to final plate.) 20th-century half calf gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: S.B.W. (monogrammed blind-stamped bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this "standard work for spider nomenclature.. [It] is the only exception to the fact that modern scientific nomenclature began in 1758 with Linnaeus' Systema naturae.": DSB III, p.320. Nissen ZBI 916.
Svenska Spindlar uti sina hufvud-slagter indelte... Aranei Suecici, descriptionibus et figuris... illustrati. Stockholm: Literis Laur. Salvii, 1757. 4 (245 x 192mm). 6 hand-coloured folding engraved plates by Carl Bergquist after Eric Borg, mounted engraved headpiece by Bergquist after L.Gottman. (Light old dampstaining to final plate.) 20th-century half calf gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: S.B.W. (monogrammed blind-stamped bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this "standard work for spider nomenclature.. [It] is the only exception to the fact that modern scientific nomenclature began in 1758 with Linnaeus' Systema naturae.": DSB III, p.320. Nissen ZBI 916.