General System of Nature Vol. vii Mineral Kingdom by Linne C (Linnaeus)

Paperback / softback. New.

1800. Leipzig, Crusium, 1800. Later modest hcloth. X,362 pp. and (10) pp. of publisher's announcement. One handcoloured plate as frontispiece with 2 birds. Titlepage and introduction (10 pp.) and Aves-Index (pp. 55-58) in xerox-copy and also supplied in old handwriting. Brownspotted. Soulsby:1154. It is Retzius' re-issue of Linné work with additions. The main part deals with birds (pp. 53-278).

N/A. N/A. 3 vols, 1786-7, complete with 19 folding copper pls. A very good copy, bound in full contemp. calf, spines gilt, a little rubbed, and numbered 5-7. This part, complete in itself, part of 8 volume set., and numbered 1-3 on title page. This copy 3327 in Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae G. A. Pritzel

1794. London, E. Hodson, 1794. 4to. Cont. hcalf, gilt and gilt lettering to spine. Hinges neathly repaired. Corners a little bumped. Engraved portrait of Linné (J. Heat sculp.) as frontispiece. XXXVIII,435 pp. Large copy with broad margins. Internally fine and clean, a few leaves with brownspots, mainly in margins. First English edition. Soulsby: 2627.

Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii Salvii, 1764. [ii], xx, 580 [44], folding portrait frontis. . HB. 8vo, cont. full leather, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, red leather title piece. Boards scuffed/worn, front and rear hinge partly split, but still firm; spine worn at head and foot. Good.. Sixth edition. Text Latin. Title page printed in black and red. The work also contains: Appendix Palmae; Indici Praemittam aliquot genera nuper detecta; Index. Generica Nomina Romano Charactere traduntur: Cursivis Literis Synonyma; Ordines Naturales; Dubii <i>Etiamnum</i> Ordinis; Errata; Emendanda in Speciebus Plantarum. Contains brief descriptions of the plant genera known to Linnaeus at that time. This is the last edition of this work edited by Linnaeus during his lifetime.Frontis engraving by Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761), depicting Linnaeus, half length, seated at a desk holding a plant specimen. Soulsby, <i>Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus</i> (1933), notes that only… Read More

1745. [Stockholm], 1745. 8vo. Extracted from "Kgl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar", 1745, 6. In recent stiff paper wrappers. Uncut, nice and clean. Pp. 116-17. [Pp. 115-18 present]. Seminal first printing of the first actual description of (speech order) aphasia.Linné here describes the case of a patient of his, who suffered from gout, which in the fall of 1742 went to his brain instead of his feet. For the first time, we here find an actual description of speech order aphasia, as Linné states "... he seemed to be raving... he was sort of speaking his own language, having his own names for all words... He had forgotten all the nouns, so that he did not remember one single one; not even the name of his children, his wife or himself, let alone anybody else. And what was even more strange, if you mentioned something he wanted to say, he said yes; but if you asked him to repeat it he replied "can nothing", when he saw someone's name, he knew who it was, and when he wanted to mention one of… Read More