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[BOTANY] FRIES, Elias. *Novitiae Florae Suecicae*. Second ed…
See original version (French)
42
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[BOTANY] FRIES, Elias. *Novitiae Florae Suecicae*. Second ed…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[BOTANY] FRIES, Elias. *Novitiae Florae Suecicae*. Second edition, expanded and revised in the form of a commentary on Wahlenberg’s *Flora Suecica*.
Everything about Swedish flora, by the great botanist Elias Fries, nicknamed the ‘Linnaeus of fungi’.
Londini Gothorum (Lund), printed by Berlingiana, 1828.
In-8, light-coloured half-calf, smooth spine decorated with fleurons and gilt fillets and repeated cold-stamped motifs, black title label, speckled edges.
XII and 306 pages.
In Latin.
Normal wear and scuffing to the binding; scratches on the title label.
A new, revised edition, on bluish paper, based on the work of Göran Wahlenberg, Professor of Botany at Uppsala University, whom the author succeeded.
Bound together with the following:
- *Novitiarum Florae Suecicae. Mentissa prima. Accecit commentatio de Salicibus* (Lund, ex officina berlingiana, 1832, 80 pp.)
- *Novitiarum Florae Suecicae*. *Mantissa altera*. *Additis plantis in Norvegia recentius detectis* (Uppsala, Lefflert and Sebell, 1839, (2) and 64 pp.).
An excellent collection of three studies by Elias Fries (1794–1878), a Swedish mycologist and botanist who laid the foundations for the classification and cataloguing of fungal species.
A copy virtually free from foxing, in a contemporary binding.
See original version (French)
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