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ANDREAS SPARRMAN (1748-1820)
Museum carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves. Stockholm: Typographia Regia, 1786-1789. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 4 (350 x 250mm). 100 hand-coloured etched plates by Fr. Akrel (and ?others) after Jonas Carl Linnerhiel, some with colour-printed base, all with letterpress numbering in top right margin. (Some worming affecting plates and text, some foxing and marginal dampstaining, a few plate numbers trimmed.) Contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt (some old scuffing). Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, sale Sotheby's New York, 7 June 1989 lot 214).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. "VERY IMPORTANT IN VIEW OF THE NEW SPECIES CONTAINED THEREIN" (Zimmer). The pictures and text describe birds brought back by the Swedish explorer Sparrman which formed the museum of Gustavus Carlson. At Carlson's death only a part of the collection was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum of Sweden, but the majority of the collection was eventually reunited there. The collection was important enough to warrant the careful study of the skins by C.J. Sundevall, who was able to identify most of the birds represented; his results were published in 1857. Anker 481; Fine Bird Book p.109; Nissen IVB 889; Zimmer 599. (2)
Museum carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves. Stockholm: Typographia Regia, 1786-1789. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 4 (350 x 250mm). 100 hand-coloured etched plates by Fr. Akrel (and ?others) after Jonas Carl Linnerhiel, some with colour-printed base, all with letterpress numbering in top right margin. (Some worming affecting plates and text, some foxing and marginal dampstaining, a few plate numbers trimmed.) Contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt (some old scuffing). Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, sale Sotheby's New York, 7 June 1989 lot 214).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. "VERY IMPORTANT IN VIEW OF THE NEW SPECIES CONTAINED THEREIN" (Zimmer). The pictures and text describe birds brought back by the Swedish explorer Sparrman which formed the museum of Gustavus Carlson. At Carlson's death only a part of the collection was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum of Sweden, but the majority of the collection was eventually reunited there. The collection was important enough to warrant the careful study of the skins by C.J. Sundevall, who was able to identify most of the birds represented; his results were published in 1857. Anker 481; Fine Bird Book p.109; Nissen IVB 889; Zimmer 599. (2)