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| AMUNDSEN, LEIV Johan Ernst Gunnerus og Carl von Linne brevveksling 1761-1772 Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, Universitetsvorlaget, 1976, 1st edition.Paper covers.82 00 23078 3.V.g./No Jacket.Slight edge wear.The correspondence between Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and the Norwegian bishop of Trondheim, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, was both lengthy and voluminous.This anthology is very well indexed: Persons, Places, Zoological names (scientific and local listed separately), and Botanical names (ditto).The book ends with three pages of facsimiles of their handwriting; there are several additional text figures.xiv, 208 pp. In Norwegian. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP 4446] Book number: 2200 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BLUNT, WILFRID The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus Collins, 1971, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 00 211142 X.V.g./ Good .Wrapper creased and showing edge wear, in transparent polyester cover.Owner's inscription.Excellent biography of Sweden's leading eighteenth century naturalist, author of ""Species Plantarum"" and other seminal works.Attractively illustrated with numerous colour photos and line drawings.256 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 383 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BLUNT, WILFRID The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus Collins, 1971, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 00 211142 X.V.g./ Good .Wrapper creased and showing edge wear, in transparent polyester cover.Owner's inscription.Excellent biography of Sweden's leading eighteenth century naturalist, author of ""Species Plantarum"" and other seminal works.Attractively illustrated with numerous colour photos and line drawings.256 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 2890 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BLUNT, WILFRID The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus Collins, 1971, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 00 211142 X.V.g./Good.Wrapper creased and showing edge wear, in transparent polyester cover.Excellent biography of Sweden's leading eighteenth century naturalist, author of ""Species Plantarum"" and other seminal works.Attractively illustrated with numerous colour photos and line drawings.256 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 3101 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BROBERG, GUNNAR Carl Linnaeus The Swedish Institute, 1992, 3rd printing; ""Famous Swedes"" series (there are 16 others including Saint Birgitta and August Strindberg).Paper covers.91 520 0285 3.Fine /No Jacket.With a cover illustration of an engraving based on the painting by Alexander Roslin (1775), this is a good introduction to the life and work of Sweden's Prince of Biologists.A few plates.32 pp.; bibliography. In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 | JP 741] Book number: 2026 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| FRIES, TH. M.; HULTH, J.M. Bref och skrifvelser af och til Carl von Linné [Linnaeus] Aktiebolaget Ljus, Stockholm; Akademiska Bokhandeln, Upsala & B.Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin, 1907-1912, 1916, 1917, 1922, 1st edition; in 8 bound volumes.Part 1 sections 1-6 are bound separately, sections 7-8 are bound together; Part 2 section 1 (all published).Blue buckram, gilt title on red spine inlay.Fine /No Jacket.A collected edition of the letters of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.The collation is complex, and the work was never completed.The letters are reproduced in the original language, which is usually either Swedish or Latin, though a few letters from overseas correspondents are in English.A comprehensive index to each volume makes this publication of inestimable value in tracing the subjects of Linnaeus' correspondence.The first six volumes were edited, with numerous footnotes, by Th.M.Fries; following his death the project was continued by J.M.Hulth, who took joint responsibility for sections 7 and 8, and sole responsibility for Part 2 section 1 (which covers ""utlänska brefväxlingen"").The latter covers correspondents from Adanson to Brünnich, the former covers A to Laxman.A tidy set in uniform bindings, very minor wear to extremities but otherwise almost unused.Soulsby 2489. In Swedish, Latin etc. GBP 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 336.25 US$ 499.8 | JP 44460] Book number: 2047 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| GUNNERUS, JOHAN ERNST; FOREWORD BY HARALD NISSEN Hans opvaekkelige hyrdebrev til det belaervaerdige, hoj- og bellaerde Praestestab i Trondheims Stift Jens Christiensen Winding, Trondheim (original); Det gamle Trykkeri"" (facsimile). 1976, Facsimile reprint of 1758 edition.Floriferous hard covers, no jacket.As new/No Jacket.Facsimile of a book written by the Bishop of Trondheim and printed by Trondheim's first recorded printer, Jens Christensen Winding.Limited edition of 300, of which this is no.16.The foreword, written by Harald Nissen ( no relation to Claus Nissen, author of ""Die botanische Buchillustration, Geschichte und Bibliographie"") explains that Gunnerus was a scholar, translator of Leibnitz and founder of Det Trondhiemske Selskab, which later became det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (a famous old natural history society).During his time as Bishop, Gunnerus corresponded with Carl Linnaeus in Uppsala, Sweden and was rewarded with the naming of a new genus Gunnera.Printed in an attractive Gothic font, this book is nicely reprinted on cream paper, and appropriately concludes with a quotation from the Bible, the last two pages being printed in a smaller font (evidently Winding was only just starting to perfect his craft).(4), 40 pp. In Norwegian. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP 4446] Book number: 2122 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| HEIMANN, NILS (COMPILER) Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778: Catalogue Twelve: a catalogue of the works of Linnaeus issued in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birthday of Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm, 1957, 1st edition.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.Corners sl.rubbed, otherwise a very tidy copy.The 892 entries present a near-comprehensive coverage of works by, about and inspired by Linnaeus.With numerous scholarly annotations, this catalogue is an essential adjunct to a collection of Linnaeana.180 pp. well illustrated with copies of title pages and plates, and handwriting samples.Includes a loosely inserted card 14 x 9 cm bearing a hand-drawn image of twinflower with the inscription ""Hjärtligt Välkommen till Linné-bygden"". In English. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 US$ 99.96 | JP 8892] Book number: 2109 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| JARVIS, CHRIS The life and times of Carl Linnaeus Oxford University Museum of Natural History, n.d.(2007), 1st edition.Paper covers.Fine /No Jacket.A biographical sketch of Carl Linnaeus, aimed at children, with a series of half-page cartoons illustrating different stags in his life.The book ends with a memorable mnemonic for the taxonomic hierarchy: Kissing Pigs Often Fees Gooey & Slimey.16 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP 593] Book number: 3197 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| JONSSON, MARITA Linné pOE Gotland GotalandsBoken, 2006, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.91 976508 0 3.New/New.With quotations from Carl Linnaeus' travel diaries, this lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on a tour of the Swedish island of Gotland following the route travelled by Linnaeus in 1741.200 pp, col.photographs. In Swedish. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP 5928] Book number: 2866 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| KIGER, ROBERT W., TANCIN, CHARLOTTE A. & BRIDSON, GAVIN D.R. Index to scientific names of organisms cited in the Linnaean dissertations, together with a synoptic bibliography of the dissertations and a concordance for selected editions Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1999, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.0 913196 67 3.As new/No Jacket.No jacket, but has protective polyester wrapper.""This index accounts for over 30,700 occurrences of more than 13,000 different formal names of plant and animal taxa that appear in the original editions of the 186 dissertations defended by students of Carl Linnaeus"" (from Introduction).The work is also invaluable in helping to disentangle the various collected editions of these theses, those edited by Linnaeus himself being known as ""Amoenitates Academiae"".Frontispiece shows the Jaquemot engraving of Linnaeus; three thesis illustrations are reproduced, of Splachnum, a serpent's skull, and a breeding pair of (un-named) Mercurialis perennis.v, 300 pp. In English. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 2285 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| KOERNER, LISBET Linnaeus: nature and nation Harvard University Press, 1999, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 674 09745 9.Fine /Fine.Little used.298 pp. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP 4446] Book number: 4834 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LANDSTROEM, KERSTIN & MODIN, LASSSE Carl Linnaeus perpetual calendar Tuva foerlag, 2006, 1st edition.Publisher's illustrated boards.978 91 633 0089 9.New/No Jacket.A beautifully illustrated perpetual calendar (non-day-of-the-week-specific) with an introductory chapter on Carl Linnaeus and intelligently-written captions to the photographs.It includes certain anniversaries, most notably that of his birth on May 23rd.With photographs of the Twinflower on the cover, this is the perfect gift for a disciple of Linnaeus.119 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 2896 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNAEUS, CAROLUS (CARL VON LINNE) Flora Lapponica: exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale collectas in itinere Amstelodami, apud Salomonem Schouten (reprinted by Bokf rlaget Rediviva), 1977, Facsimile reprint of 1737 first edition.Pictorial hard covers.91 7120 093 2.Fine/No Jacket.Linnaeus's first major floristic work, published in the Netherlands with a generally good print quality; the twelve plates are however reproduced over two facing pages rather than as fold-outs.Despite the fact that the author's binomial system of nomenclature had not yet been implemented, the genera and species described herein are largely copied over verbatim into Linnaeus' later work Species Plantarum (1753).The rather fanciful frontispiece shows a traveller sitting outside his tent (or wigwam?) with an uncharacteristically tame reindeer sitting facing him, and a galloping reindeer in the background towing a Lapp in a sled.A pair of skis, a magic drum, and a sprig of Linnaea borealis (Twinflower) feature in the foreground.Two further Lapps can be seen in the distance with their canoes.(38), 372, (38) pp. 12 attractive plates.The frontispiece is also reproduced on the pictorial cover on blue cloth. In Latin. GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 89.75 US$ 133.28 | JP 11856] Book number: 2107 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNAEUS, C. (CAROLUS LINN¾US, CAROLI LINN¾I); STICKMAN, OLAVUS (OLAV) D. D. Herbarium Amboinense, quod consens. experient. facult. Medic¾ in regia academia UpsaliensiÉOlavus Stickman Smolandus 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.B ttiger.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. GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 134.5 US$ 199.92 | JP 17784] Book number: 1977 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNAEUS, CARL (EDITED BY KNUT HAGBERG) Iter Dalekarlicum; Iter ad Exteros P.A.Norstedt & Soeners, Stockholm, 1929, New edition, Ungdomsresor (vol.2) of a manuscript written in 1734.Hard covers, no dust jacket.As new/As new.A new edition, still in Swedish but with modernised spelling, of Linnaeus's classic account of his exploration of Dalarna province of western Sweden and adjacent parts of Norway.Published in a uniform edition together with Linnaeus' Iter Lapponicum (1732). In Swedish, Latin. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 2701 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNAEUS, CARL Mantissa Plantarum J.Cramer, 1971, Historia naturalis classica tomus VII.Boards, gilt lettering on spine.3 7682 0037 X.Fine /No Jacket.Fine; owner's signature.Facsimile reprint of Mantissa Plantarum (1767), 144 pp.and Mantissa Altera (1771), 588 pages, two of Carl Linnaeus' last major works.Scholarly introduction by William T.Stearn, xxv pages.Nomenclaturally important, as it contains names of many new species that were recently discovered in Europe, W.Asia, Java and the New World.The problem of names published by both Linnaeus and Burman in 1767 and 1768, based on the same species, is also discussed.This arose because Linnaeus received unpublished proof plates from Burman and pre-empted their publication without Burman making the necessary adjustments to his text. In English. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 US$ 99.96 | JP 8892] Book number: 233 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNAEUS, CARL; EDITED BY DAVID BLACK, ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHEN LEE Travels Paul Elek, 1979, 1st edition thus. Hard covers, dust jacket.0 236 41077 7.Fine /Fine.Scarcely used.A well illustrated book with carefully chosen selections from Carl Linnaeus's travel writings from his Lapland, Oland and Gotland journeys.A chapter by William T.Stearn on 'Linnaean classification' concludes the book.108 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 4007 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LINNÉ, CARL V[ON]. (CAROLUS LINNAEUS) SkOEnska (Skanska) Resa, pOE höga öfverhetens befallning förrättad r 1749 C.W.K.Gleerup, Lund, 1884, Reissue of 1874 edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Pages somewhat tanned, minor edge-wear to covers, folding map of SkOEne at rear.Preface by Martin Weibull; dedication to Clas Ekeblad.A classic of Swedish travel writing by an observant scientist and polymath.A few redrawn text figures of agricultural implements etc. including (pp.190-191) two different views of Kyrkorne church.v, xi, 359 pp. fold-out map (corners creased). In Swedish. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 | JP 7410] Book number: 2108 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MANKTELOW, MARIETTE & KETTUNEN, PETRONELLA Kvinnorna kring Linne Artea, Ryd, 2007, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.978 91 85527 06 9.As new /As new.Inscribed by author on half-title.Biographical sketches of women naturalists who had some sort of relationship with Carl Linnaeus, together with his closest female relatives, illustrated with portraits (when available) and photographs of their art and writings.Foreword by Pauline Snoeijs, who also provided the extraordinary closeup photograph of the floral orifice of Impatiens on p.22.Includes Anna Blackburne, Janes Colden, Mary Delany, Marianne North, Beatrix Potter and (almost as an afterthought) Caroline Luise von Baden-Durlach and Elsa Beata Wrede.144 pp. In Swedish. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 | JP 3557] Book number: 3600 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| SVENSKA LINNE-SAELLSKAPETS Svenska Linne-Saellskapets Aarsskrift, 1920-21 Uppsala, 1920, Aargang 3 & 4 only.Half leather, gilt .V.g./No Jacket.Bookplate of 'P.W.'; attractively bound in purple leather, spine with five raised bands, floral gilt decoration, gilt title.Frontispiece: monochrome photograph of Crown Princess Margareta.Contents of vol.3 include articles on: Tycho Tullberg, Linnaeus' vocabulary, Celsius and Flora Uplandica, early investigations of the N.American flora (especially by Linnaeus and Kalm), and Linnaeus' Scanian travels.Pages 122-132 report proceedings of the Society.(8), 132 pp.Contents of vol.4 include Linnaeus and Pharmacopoeia Suecica, a revision of Kalm's herbarium, Linnaeus and Baeck, and a report on the Linnaean botanic garden for 1920.Proceedings occupy pp.137-160.In Swedish, English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 | JP 7410] Book number: 2599 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| SNOEIJS, PAULINE Linnés brudkammare / The bridal chambers of Linnaeus Artea, 2007, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.978 91 85527 05 2.As new /As new.With the jacket illustrated by a closeup of a flower of Impatiens glandulifera Royle, this collection of botanical photographs is arranged in the order of the Linnaean classes; each section is introduced by a reproduction of Linnaeus's (or more correctly, Ehret's) floral diagram for that class (and not forgetting the diatoms!).240 pp. In Swedish and English. GBP 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.5 US$ 59.98 | JP 5335] Book number: 5987 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| SWANN, TONY Carl Linnaeus 1707-1778: the colleciton of John E. duPont offered for sale by Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd Wheldon & Wesley Ltd. Leighton Buzzard, 2002, 1st edition.Comb-bound paper.Fine/No Jacket.Catalogue of an important collection of Linnaeana which was offered for sale as a complete set for $300,000 but also priced item by item (in dollars).Grouped by subject and then listed, it would appear, in no particular order, the cataloguer has not troubled to use Swedish accecnts.Pp.40-47 reproduces an earlier article by the late W.T.Stearn and Gavin Bridson (respectively past-President, and former Librarian, of the Linnean Society of London).The highlight of the collection is a set of 201 dissertations (186 of which were written by Linnaeus for his students to defend), priced at $25,000.This was one of the last major catalogues to emerge from this hugely respected natural history bookselling firm, which sadly went out of business recently.48 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 2895 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| THUNBERG, CAROL. PET. [PRAESIDE]; TOERNER, SAMUEL [PROPONIT] Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum Upsaliae, litteris director Joh.Edman, 1789 (10 June), 1st edition.Pamphlet .V.g./ No Jacket .Well preserved 16-page pamphlet summarising a thesis that was defended by the little-known student Samuel Toerner of Norkoping in the Gustav Auditorium, University of Uppsala, on 10 June 1779.The binding has been strengthened with tape.Following a dedication page to C.J.Bogeman, and a three-page Prooemium, the main text consists of an enumeration of the Linnaean classes [Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and Aptera] and genera of insects with brief latin diagnoses and occasional explanatory footnotes.Though not a very original contribution to science, this thesis provides an interesting insight into the academic work of the distinguished naturalist Professor C.P.Thunberg.In Latin. GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 89.75 US$ 133.28 | JP 11856] Book number: 2301 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| UGGLA, ARVID HJ. Linnaeus Swedigh Institute, Stockholm, 1957, 1st edition in English.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.A short biographical sketch of Linnaeus, illustrated with 16 pages of monochrome plates.16 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 | JP 3557] Book number: 3171 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. |
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