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(LINNAEUS, C.) - HOUTTUYN, M. Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van den heer Linnaeus. Amsterdam, F. Houttuyn, 1761-1785. 8vo. 3 sections in 37 volumes. Approx. pp. 22000, with 296 engraved plates. Hulth
8; Nissen BBI, 940; Soulsby 73. This scarce edition of Houttuyn's
famous work is only slightly based on Linnaeus' 'Systema
naturae'. It is often cited under Linnaeus' name, although it is
more a compilation than a translation. It influenced largely many
similar works in the vernacular in other countries. Divided into
three parts, i.e. I: Zoology, 18 volumes with 143 plates,
subdivided into mammals, birds, amphibians, fishes, insects,
worms, molluscs and polypes - II: Botany, 14 volumes with 105
plates illustrating 275 species of plants and the description of
well over a hundred new species of plants. His division of the
plant kingdom is according to the system proposed by Linnaeus in
the 12th edition of the 'Systema'. "The taxonomic part of
the book is extremely detailed and contains a wealth of
incidental information not brought together in this form
elsewhere" (Stafleu. Linnaeus) - III: Minerals, 5 volumes
with 48 plates, divided into fossils, stones and minerals. A good
complete set in a uniform contemporary binding. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Bibliotheca Botanica recenses libros plus mille de plantis huc usque editos, secundum systema auctorum naturale. Amsterdam, S. Schouten, 1736. Small-8vo. pp. (16), 153, (13), (2 errata). (Bound up with:) IDEM. Fundamenta Botanica. Amsterdam, S. Schouten, 1736. Small-8vo. pp. (4), 35, (1). First
work: Soulsby 250; Hulth 17. First edition of this very scarce
work which contains a criticalbibliography of more than 1000
works of botanical writers down to 1736, with bibliographical
data. Second work: Soulsby 253: "This work was printed in
1735. In Linneaus's own copy, in the Library of the Linnean
Society of London, in his own note:"Typis absolutus 1735.
Sept.3 st. vet.'" "Die Fundamenta enthalten in 365
kurzen Thesen das Ganze der Botanik" (Junk. Rara I, 37).
Lower and upper right corner with old cellotape repair to a great
number of leaves. This cellotype has been taken off leaving a
number of holes at these places. Still a reasonable copy of these
rare works. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Flora Svecica, exhibens plantas per regnum Svecicae crescentes, systematice cum differentiis specierum, synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, usu oeconomorum, officinalibus pharmacopaeorum. Editio secunda aucta et emendata. Stockholmiae, L. Salvii, 1755. 8vo. pp. (4), xxxii, 464, (30), with 1 folded engraved plate. Soulsby 409. Second edition; the first was published in Stockholm in 1745. The above work describes 1296 plants, 56 more than the first edition. A finely bound copy. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Hortus Cliffortianus plantas exhibens in Hortis tam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit ... Georgius Clifford ... Reductis varietatibus ad species, speciebus ad genera, generibus ad classes, adjectis locis plantarum natalibus differentiisque specierum ... Amsterdam 1737. Folio. pp. (xxxiii), x, 231, (1); 301-501, (17), with engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title and 36 engraved plates. First edition of this attractive and important work. "Hortus Cliffortianus, with Genera plantarum and Species plantarum, is the central volume in botanical literature. In it Linnaeus had his first full opportunity to present a detailed catalogue of cultivated plants, in worthy format; and at the time he was feeling his way toward that distinguishing of species and varieties, even that abridgment of botanical names, which culminated in Species plantarum. As the volume was produced at the expense of George Clifford, merchant prince and owner of the gardens at Hartecamp, it stands alone among the many publications of Linnaeus as a really beautiful book. The sensitive and lively drawings of George Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) and the good engraving of Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) make the book a treasure ... W.T. Steran notes that the book 'marks the beginning of a new era in botanical illustration and foreshadows the golden century of great flower-book production which extended from 1760 to 1860'. ... George Clifford (1685-1760) was an Anglo-Dutch banker, interested in the Dutch East India Company and the proprietor of magnificent gardens and a menagerie at Hartecamp in Holland. He had the good sense to employ both the fine flower-painting artist Ehret and the brilliant young botanist Linnaeus in the production of an illustrated catalogue of the plants growing on his estate" (Hunt 504). His name is commemorated in the genus of South African shrubs, Cliffortia. The book is noted for the number of South African plants illustrated and described (See Kerkham. Southern Botanical Literature 1600-1988, p. 19). The allegorical frontispiece is one of Jan Wandelaar's finest inventions. See Calmann pp. 125-6 for an explanation of its symbolism. The botanical plates were all engraved by Wandelaar from drawings by himself and Ehret. The jump in pagination resulted from changing the format during printing from quarto to folio. The present copy is exceptionally large (44 x 26cm.), being virtually the dimensions given by Hunt for an uncut copy. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Hortus Upsaliensis, exhibens plantas exoticas, Horto Upsaliensis Academiae a sese illatas, ab anno 1742, in annum 1748, additis differentiis, synonymis, habitationibus, hospitiis, rariorumque descriptionibus, in gratiam studiosae juventutis. Vol. I (all published). Stockholmiae, L. Salvii, 1748. 8vo. pp. (8), 306, (40), with 3 folded engraved plates. Soulsby 424. Very scarce first edition, listing 110 foreign plants (among them many Siberian species) introduced by Linnaeus. The work is considered as the outset of the famous 'Species Plantarum'. Here and there slightly browned as usual. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus, by James Edward Smith. London, White and Cochrane, 1811. 2 volumes (bound in one). 8vo. pp. xvi, 366; (2), 306), (2), with 62 figures. Soulsby 192. In 1784 Smith purchased the Linnaeun Herbarium after the death of the younger Linnaeus and became the first president of 'The Linnaean Society'. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Mantissa Plantarum. Generum editionis VI et Specierum editionis II. (Holmiae, L. Salvin, 1767). 8vo. pp. 142, (2, index) (bound up with:) IDEM. Systema Naturae, per Regna tria Naturae, ... Tomus III: (Regnum Lapidum: Petrae - Minerae - Fossilia). Vindobonae, I. Thomae, 1770. 8vo. pp. 236, (19, index), with 3 folded, engraved plates. (Mantissa:) Pritzel 5429; Soulsby 311: "Issued separately; as an appendix to volume 2 of the twelfth edition of the Systema Naturae (1766-68) and to the "editio decima tertia" (Vindobonae), (1767-70) of the same work"; Junk Rara, p. 55: " Von ausserordentlicher Wichtigkeit für die botanische Nomenclatur als Nachtrag zu dem Fundamentalwerk 'Species Plantarum'." Titlepage of the "Mantissa" not present; paper slightly browned or spotted. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Mantissa Plantarum altera generum editionis VI. & specierum editionis II. Holmiae, L. Salvii, 1771. 8vo. pp. (6), 143-588. Contemporary blind boards, spine with handwritten label. Soulsby 312 & 501c. The "Second Mantissa-edition", containing also "Regni Animalis Appendix" (pages521-552), must be considered as an indispensable supplement to Linné's "Species Plantarum". It is of utmost rarity which is proved by Junk, who stated already in 1916: "Jetzt fast unauffindbar". |
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LINNAEUS, C. Plantae Rariores Camschatcenses. Praeside ... Carolo Linnaeo ... modeste submitet Jonas P. Halenius. Upsaliae 1750. 4to. pp. (4), 30, with 1 folding engraved plate. "A description at large of 26 new Siberian plants, sent to Linnaeus by Gmelin ... It is a curious remark made by our author, that if journeying eastward in Kamtschatka, the botanist sees his nearer approach to North America, by the habit of many of the plants; and hence arose a presumptive proof of the vicinity of the two continents, before real discoveries had confirmed the truth of it. The author has given a list of several plants, which are actually of the same species as are found in North America" (Pulteney p. 376). |
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LINNAEUS, C. Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium, editionis decimae tertiae (1774), Generum Plantarum editionis sextae (1764), et Specierum Plantarum editionis secundae (1762-1763). Brunsvigae, Orphanotrophei, 1781. Royal-8vo. pp. (16), 467, (1). Soulsby
309; Heimann 130: "Original edition of this important
supplement, written by Linnaeus, posthumously published from the
MS by Linnés son. Contains descriptions of 93 Genera with
1.303 Species, among them many Surinam plants". "Linnaeus
filius' botanical output was modest and in no way spectacular.
Best known is his 'Supplementum Plantarum' of 1781, which
contains descriptions by his father and contributions by
Friedrich Ehrhart and some others, as well as original work by
the author himself" (Stafleu. Linnaeus and the Linnaens, p.
147. A very fine copy. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Systema Vegetabilium. Editio decima sexta. Curante C. Sprengel. Gottingae, sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae, 1825-1828. 5 volumes. 8vo. pp. vi, (14), 4654. Soulsby 616. Sixteenth and last edition. It includes H. Schott "Fasciculus Plantarum Brasiliensium"(volume IV, appendix); the last volume consists of the Indices by A. Sprengel. The 13th edition of the "Systema Vegetabilium" is in fact the first one with this separate title. It follows after the 12th edition of the Systema Naturae, from which (i.e. its second volume) the Systema Vegetabilium had been separately edited under this title, by various scholars and pupils of Linnaeus. |
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LINNAEUS, C. Vollständiges Pflanzensystem nach der dreyzehnten lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des höllandischen Houttuynischen Werks. Nürnberg, G.N. Raspe, 1777-1788. 13 volumes & register (bound in 15). 8vo. With 1 engraved portraitand 121 folded engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum . (USD $ 2,050) NLG 4.500 Soulsby
577. The complete botanical section of Houttuyn's compilation of
Linnaeus. "The taxonomic part of the book is extremely
detailed and contains a wealth of incidental information not
brought together in this form elsewhere" (Stafleu.
Linnaeus). Apart from the somewhat rubbed bindings a very fine
clean set. |