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[A volume of botanical and mineralogical plates from a German edition of Linnaeus’s Systema natura. ?Nürnberg, c.1773-85.]
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[LINNAEUS, Carl (1707-1778)]
[A volume of botanical and mineralogical plates from a German edition of Linnaeus’s Systema natura. ?Nürnberg, c.1773-85.]
Fine collection of folio format illustrations for Linnaeus' works. Linnaeus’s Systema natura, first published in 1735, is one of the most important books in the history of science and 'virtually the inauguration of the classification of plants and animals' (Grolier/Horblitt). These plates appear to be from the first or later German edition of Linnaeus published by Raspe in Nürnberg: Des Ritters Carl von Linné … Vollstandiges Pflanzensystem [1773-76] and Vollstandiges natursystem des Mineralreichs [1777-85]. The plates which are normally found folded bound with the octavo text volumes are here bound separately in folio format, nearly all in their most desirable unfolded state, except for the few largest which are folded.
Plate volume only, folio (407 x 245 mm). 173 sheets of engraved plates, some sheets with 2 or more plates, comprising 120 of botanical subjects numbered 1-105 [plus bis plates], and 53 of mineralogy. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, flat spine gilt with leather lettering piece “Kupfer / zu Linne’s / Naturgeschichte” (extremities rubbed, joints starting, sold as a collection of plates not subject to return). Provenance: John G. van Marle (Dutch ornithologist, 1901-1979, bookplate).
[A volume of botanical and mineralogical plates from a German edition of Linnaeus’s Systema natura. ?Nürnberg, c.1773-85.]
Fine collection of folio format illustrations for Linnaeus' works. Linnaeus’s Systema natura, first published in 1735, is one of the most important books in the history of science and 'virtually the inauguration of the classification of plants and animals' (Grolier/Horblitt). These plates appear to be from the first or later German edition of Linnaeus published by Raspe in Nürnberg: Des Ritters Carl von Linné … Vollstandiges Pflanzensystem [1773-76] and Vollstandiges natursystem des Mineralreichs [1777-85]. The plates which are normally found folded bound with the octavo text volumes are here bound separately in folio format, nearly all in their most desirable unfolded state, except for the few largest which are folded.
Plate volume only, folio (407 x 245 mm). 173 sheets of engraved plates, some sheets with 2 or more plates, comprising 120 of botanical subjects numbered 1-105 [plus bis plates], and 53 of mineralogy. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, flat spine gilt with leather lettering piece “Kupfer / zu Linne’s / Naturgeschichte” (extremities rubbed, joints starting, sold as a collection of plates not subject to return). Provenance: John G. van Marle (Dutch ornithologist, 1901-1979, bookplate).
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