HASSELQUIST, FREDRIC / VON LINNÉ, CARL (Editor): - Iter Palaestinium eller resa til Heliga Landet, förrättad ifrån år 1749 til 1752, med beskrifningar, rön, anmärkningar, öfver de märkvärdigaste naturalier. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1757.

. Pp. (xvi), 209, 230-619, (1). Contemporary half calf, worn. Several old ownersip signatures. Bookplate. Partly with some waterstaining. First edition of Hasselquist's voyage to Egypt and the Near East during the years 1749 to 1752. He died in 1752 at Smyrna and his work was posthumously published by Linné (his former teacher), who said: "So admirable a travel journal has never before appeared". Includes the important "Descriptiones Rerum Naturalium Praestantiorum" and also some letters from Hasselquist to Linneaus. It's the first systematic natural history of the Holy Land according to Blackmer. Blackmer 790. Cox i,230. Hulth p.105. Röhricht p.315. Soulsby 3577. Tobler p.130.

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