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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Decorated paper over boards, light brown cloth-backed. Issued to Commemorate the Opening of the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana at the Hunt Botanical Library Carnegie-Mellon University. Preface by GIlbert S. Daniels, an Introductory essay by Birger Strandell, "An Introduction to Linnaeus," including his life and work, and the various Linnaean Centers in Sweden, and then his own writings, and with an Introduction thereto by Telemak Fredbar. 70 pp. Text is set in Spectrum Monotype, the display type is Hunt Roman designed for the Hunt Botanical Library by Hermann Zapf. The facsimile is printed…
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by LINNAEUS, Carl
Philosophia Botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis
by LINNAEUS, Carl
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Stockholm: Godofr. Kiesewetter, 1751. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (201 x 121 mm). [6], 362 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by I. M. Bernigeroth, 9 engraved plates, and 2 woodcuts in text. Contemporary half calf with gilt lettering piece to spine (boards and extremities rubbed). Internally little browned throughout, endpapers, title and preliminaries brown-burned in outer corners from tanned leather turn-ins, otherwise a fine, virtually unspotted and unmarked copy. Rare with the engraved frontispiece portrait. ---- Sparrow; Milestones of Science 135; Soulsby 437; Hulth 72; D.S.B. VIII, p.376. First edition. "Continuing his study on the classification of plants, Linnaeus published Philosophica botanica in 1751. In this he attempted to organize a natural system based on structure, but this work was never completed" (Sparrow). "In 1751 he published Philosophies botanica, his most influential work but actually only an expanded version of Fundamenta botanica. In it Linnaeus dealt with the theory of botany, the laws and rules that the botanist must follow in order to describe and name the plants correctly and to combine them into higher systematic categories." (DSB) The plates have also been used in "Hortus Cliffortianus".The engraved portrait, which was supplied to only a few copies, is present in this copy.
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- Edition 1st Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Godofr. Kiesewetter
- Place of Publication Stockholm
- Date Published 1751
- Keywords botany, plant classification, taxonomy Botany and zoology Sparrow - Milestones of Science