Linnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta praecedente longe correctior curante Jo. Andrea Murray, equite ord. r. de Wasa.
Paris, J. F. P. Déterville, 1798. 8vo (20.3 x 13.3 cm). 16, 822 pp. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
A much expanded edition, edited by the Swedish botanist and pharmacist Johan Andreas (or Anders) Murray (1740-1791), a pupil of Linnaeus. This is the second edition by Murray (first: 1784). Provenance: botanical-geological stamp of Eug. Lefebvre de Fourcy on the front free endpaper verso. Eugène Lefebvre or Lefebure de Fourcy (1812-1889), was a French engineer and cartographer. Some shelf-wear to the boards and spine, mostly to the edges; a few, isolated spots or smudges in te text, a tear in pp. 97-98 just into the text, but without loss, and a chip in the fore-edge of pp. 51-52. A few other fore-edges partly chipped, otherwise a very good copy. Soulsby, 608.
