LINNAEUS, CAROLUS. Natuurlyke Historie of Uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen. Amsterdam: F. Houttuyn 1761-85. 3 parts in 37 vols., 8vo, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco lettering-pieces on spines, edges sprinkled red, two volumes (part 2, vols. 1 and 9) slightly smaller and bound in non-uniform half calf and calf; bindings rubbed, lacking most half-titles, some light offsetting, occasional pale foxing or mostly marginal dampstaining, marginal soiling to titles. Tenth edition, 296 folding engraved plates of animals, plants and minerals, by G. Philips. B. H. Soulsby, A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus...in the British Museum (London 1933), 73. C.A. de Groot, nineteenth-century ink-stamps on some titles; H. Bradley Martin, bookplates (sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 December 1989, lot 1689). (37)

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LINNAEUS, CAROLUS. Natuurlyke Historie of Uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen. Amsterdam: F. Houttuyn 1761-85. 3 parts in 37 vols., 8vo, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco lettering-pieces on spines, edges sprinkled red, two volumes (part 2, vols. 1 and 9) slightly smaller and bound in non-uniform half calf and calf; bindings rubbed, lacking most half-titles, some light offsetting, occasional pale foxing or mostly marginal dampstaining, marginal soiling to titles. Tenth edition, 296 folding engraved plates of animals, plants and minerals, by G. Philips. B. H. Soulsby, A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus...in the British Museum (London 1933), 73. C.A. de Groot, nineteenth-century ink-stamps on some titles; H. Bradley Martin, bookplates (sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 December 1989, lot 1689). (37)