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LINNAEUS, Carl (1707-1778). Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas. Stockholm: Lars Salvius, 1753.
2 volumes, 8° (193 x 120mm). With final errata leaf in vol.II and an additional gathering at the front of Vol.II (i.e. preliminary matter from the 1748 Stockholm edition of Hortus Upsaliensis). (Some light browning or old dampstaining.) Contemporary sheep (rubbed, neat repairs to spines). Provenance: ?S.D. (stamped monogram); C.J.Möller (signature).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN THE WORLD'S BOTANICAL LITERATURE" (Hunt). This work is the first appearance of one of Linnaeus's most important contributions to botany: his new nomenclature. "This designates each species under two words -- generally in Latin -- first, the genus -- including all species sufficiently similar -- and, second, the species, detailing its special characteristics... Some seven thousand three hundred species are described in the Species Plantarum... all arranged according to the sexual system and nearly all examined by Linné himself" (PMM). Hunt 548; Pritzel 5427; Stafleu/Cowan 4769; cf. PMM 192. (2)
2 volumes, 8° (193 x 120mm). With final errata leaf in vol.II and an additional gathering at the front of Vol.II (i.e. preliminary matter from the 1748 Stockholm edition of Hortus Upsaliensis). (Some light browning or old dampstaining.) Contemporary sheep (rubbed, neat repairs to spines). Provenance: ?S.D. (stamped monogram); C.J.Möller (signature).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN THE WORLD'S BOTANICAL LITERATURE" (Hunt). This work is the first appearance of one of Linnaeus's most important contributions to botany: his new nomenclature. "This designates each species under two words -- generally in Latin -- first, the genus -- including all species sufficiently similar -- and, second, the species, detailing its special characteristics... Some seven thousand three hundred species are described in the Species Plantarum... all arranged according to the sexual system and nearly all examined by Linné himself" (PMM). Hunt 548; Pritzel 5427; Stafleu/Cowan 4769; cf. PMM 192. (2)