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Wahlenberg, G.
Flora Svecica enumerans plantas Sveciae indigenas, cum synopsi classicum ordinumque characteribus generum ... post Linnaeum edita. Pars prior. pars Pars posterior.
Upsaliae, Palmblad, 1831-1833. Two volumes in two. 8vo (20.0 x 13.0 cm). xcvii, 1134 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers. Green speckled edges.
Read moreThunberg, C. P.
Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum, consensu exper. fac. med. upsal. praeside Carol. Pet. Thunberg, publicae censurae proponit Samuel Törner, Norcopia-Gothus. In audit. Gust. maj. d. X Jun. MDCCLXXXIX.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], Joh. Edman, 1789. Quarto (21.5 x 17.5 cm). Title page, 16 pp. Early 20th-century light blue buckram; black morocco strip with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLinnaeus, C.
Carl von Linnés anteckningar öfver Nemesis divina. Inbjudnings-skrift till morgondagens philosophiska promotion från Upsala universitets stiftelse den sjutiiondesjunde. Af tillförordnad promotor Elias Fries.
Upsala [Uppsala], Kongl. Academiska Boktryckeriet, 1848. Tall folio (44.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page; 26 pp. Loose-leaved, as issued.
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Skrifter af Carl von Linné. I. Flora Lapponica Öfversatt till Svenska spraket. [AND] II. Valda smärre skrifter af alllmänt naturvetenskapligt innehåll. [AND] III. Classes Plantarum opus denuo editum. [AND] IV. Valda smärre skrifter af botaniskt innehåll [AND] V. Iter lapponicum. Andra upplagan. Med bilagor och noter. Ombesörjd af Th. M. Fries. [Five papers in the series: Skrifter af Carl von Linné. Utgifta af Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien].
Upsala [Uppsala], Almqvist & Wiksells, 1905-1913. Five volumes in five. 8vo (24.5 x 16.5 cm). Near uniform later half linen over marbled boards. All but one with the original printed front wrapper mounted on the front board.
Read moreHamilton-Temple-Blackwood, F. T. [Lord Dufferin]
A yacht voyage. Letters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen, by Lord Dufferin, Governor General of the Dominion of Canada.
Toronto, Adam, Stevensen, 1873. 8vo (18.1 x 12.0 cm). 281 pp., engraved frontispiece, tissue-guarded portrait of the author, nine engraved plates including one of a skeleton in a coffin captioned: "Et ego in arctis", several wood engravings in the text. Original decorated cloth with bevelled edges and gilt title on the spine, and gilt title and large vignette on the front board.
Read moreFoslie, M. [H.]
The Norwegian forms of Lithothamnion [AND] New or critical Lithothamnia.
Trondhjem, Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs, 1894. Two papers in one. 8vo (22.2 x 14.2 cm). 190 [180; 10] pp.; 24 [23; 1] attractive photographed plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands, gilt title and vignettes. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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