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L.M.Hójer, Upsali¾, 1754.Paper covers.V.g./ No Jacket .Disbound, with remains of stitching at spine.Thesis defended on 11 May 1754 by one of Linnaeus's pupils, Olav Stickman, which provides a concordance between the botanical names employed in ""Herbarium Amboinense"" and modern Linnaean binomials.It was later reissued in a collected edition by Linnaeus in 1759 (Amoenitates Academiae vol.4, no.56, pp.112-143).Georg Eberhard Rumpf [1627-1702], also known as Rumphius, first prepared a manuscript account of the flora of Amboina (now Ambon Island in the Maluku Archipelago, Indonesia) in the 1670s.On its way back to Holland, the manuscript was lost in a shipwreck, and he prepared a second version in the 1690s (by then he had gone blind).The Dutch East India Company did not immediately publish the work which was later edited by J.Burmann.Rumpf's magnificently illustrated 12-volume Herbarium Amboinense was finally published in 1741.Stickman's summary (probably written by Linnaeus himself) was precocious in its use of binomials, as the thesis was published in the year prior to the appearance of Linnaeus's great work Species Plantarum which first established a consistent binomial system of plant nomenclature.Includes a dedication (in German) to Daniel Wilh.Böttiger.There is also a preface, in Swedish, by Zach.N.Liungdahl.Includes an elegant printers' device, based on an Acanthus design, on p.1.Although the booklet has previously been bound and trimmed, with three main stitching perforations, its margins remain generous.Lidén no.57; Stafleu & Cowan, TL-II no.4777.iv, 28 pp. In Latin, German, Swedish.

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