Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aenesis.

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8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.; 18.7 x 11.8 cm). 9 folding engraved plates after I. G. Hallman, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations, some neat contemporary annotations to index. BINDING/CONDITION: Contemporary Swedish marbled boards, orange morocco spine label; extremities rubbed. Red morocco backed slipcase, chemise. Light browning throughout, fore-edge of Z1 remargined. (65V9C) FIRST EDITION FOF THE KEYSTONE OF THE LINNEAN SYSTEM OF BOTANY. Jean-Jacques Rousseau exclaimed that the Philosophia botanica had "more wisdom in it than the biggest folios; in it there is not a single useless word" (quoted in Hunt). Soulsby mentions that some copies contain an engraved portrait of the author, but none of the copies examined in Stafleu and Cowan had one. Therefore its presence seems arbitrary and not required. PROVENANCE: Robert Honeyman IV (red morocco label and sale, Sotheby's London, 12 May 1980, lot 2022); Sotheby's New York, 12 December 2017, lot 29 REFERENCES: Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt, 541; Pritzel, Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae, 5426; Stafleu & Cowan TL2, Taxonomic Literature, 4760; Soulsby, A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus, 437. N° de ref. del artículo 65ERM0018

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