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CAROLUS LINNAEUS (1707-78)
Genera plantarum. Leiden: Conrad Wishoff, 1737. [Bound with:] Methodus Sexualis. Leiden: Wishoff, 1737. [And:] Corollarium Generum Plantarum. Leiden: Wishoff, 1737. 3 works in one volume, 8° (196 x 121mm). Genera with woodcut title vignette, folding letterpress table Clavis Classium and FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATE AFTER G.D. EHRET. (Light dampstaining, heavier at end.) 19th-century mottled calf-backed marbled boards, red sprinkled edges (spine lightly worn). Provenance: a few early annotations, botanical descriptions of Limodurum and Andrapogon extracted from a work by Adriaan van Royen written on rear pastedown.
FIRST EDITIONS. 'The Genera plantarum ... next to Systema naturae [see previous lot] is his outstanding early work' (DSB). It describes all 935 plant genera then known. Ehret had produced an engraving illustrating the Linnean method of plant classification in 1736 which is found in a few copies of the Systema naturae. Linneaus was so pleased by the diagram that he had it re-engraved and it was issued with all but the earliest copies of the Genera plantarum. The three works bound together here were issued separately as well as together. Stafleu and Cowan 4714, 4715, 4716.
Genera plantarum. Leiden: Conrad Wishoff, 1737. [Bound with:] Methodus Sexualis. Leiden: Wishoff, 1737. [And:] Corollarium Generum Plantarum. Leiden: Wishoff, 1737. 3 works in one volume, 8° (196 x 121mm). Genera with woodcut title vignette, folding letterpress table Clavis Classium and FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATE AFTER G.D. EHRET. (Light dampstaining, heavier at end.) 19th-century mottled calf-backed marbled boards, red sprinkled edges (spine lightly worn). Provenance: a few early annotations, botanical descriptions of Limodurum and Andrapogon extracted from a work by Adriaan van Royen written on rear pastedown.
FIRST EDITIONS. 'The Genera plantarum ... next to Systema naturae [see previous lot] is his outstanding early work' (DSB). It describes all 935 plant genera then known. Ehret had produced an engraving illustrating the Linnean method of plant classification in 1736 which is found in a few copies of the Systema naturae. Linneaus was so pleased by the diagram that he had it re-engraved and it was issued with all but the earliest copies of the Genera plantarum. The three works bound together here were issued separately as well as together. Stafleu and Cowan 4714, 4715, 4716.
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