By the last holder of Linnaeus's Chair

Wahlenberg, G.

Flora Svecica enumerans plantas Sveciae indigenas, cum synopsi classicum ordinumque characteribus generum ... post Linnaeum edita. Pars prior. pars Pars posterior.

Published 1831-1833
Item ID 11861
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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.

An important botanical work after Linnaeus. This is the second, enlarged edition. Including a very large name index and the folding table, opposite p. lxviii. Göran, or Georg, Wahlenberg (1780-1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He "...received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. He was the last holder of the undivided chair that in the previous century had been held by Linnaeus" (Wikipedia). With on the front pastedowns a pictorial bookplate of the Swedish botanist and lichenologist Ove Almborn (1914-1992). A very good copy. Stafleu and Cowan, 16523.

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