‎Tal, om Märkwärdigheter uti insecterne, hållt för Wettenscaps Academien uti Auditorio Illustri på första Præsidentskapet aflades 1739. D. 3. October. - [LINNAEUS' VIEW OF NATURE]‎

‎Stockholm, Pet. Momma, 1739. Small 8vo. Preserved in covers of older blindstamped golden paper. Title-page a bit soiled and with old owner's names (one of them crossed out, the other one being Roland Martin). A small restoration to lower blank margin of title-page. Woodcut initial at beginning and woodcut end-vignette. (18) pp.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition, first issue (with an excellent provenance) of Linnaeus' seminal speech which has gone down in history as one of the most famous and influential summations on the economy of nature - demonstrated by ""curiosities among insects"". With poetical eloquence, Linnaeus shows us the wonder of the small creature that is the insect and beautifully ties together the nature of the world that we live in, providing to all living things a means and an end. Published merely four years after the groundbreaking first edition of the ""Systema Natura"" - and two decades before the definitive 10th edition of it - Linnaeus, in this epochal speech, points us to the fact that only with the ""Systema Natura"" had the true nature of the insect been discovered, revealing to us also the true wonder of nature. This groundbreaking speech was given at the inauguration of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739. Linnaeus himself was one of the founders of the academy"" this foundational speech not only marks the beginning of the world-changing Academy of Sciences, being the first in a long series of presiding speeches that were given four times a year (when the Academy chose a new chairman), it also marks an epoch in the theory of natural history. The frequent reprinting of the speech bears witness to its epochal character and the importance it came to hold for Linnaeus himself. The extremely scarce first issue was printed by Momma in a poor antiqua setting, mixing three different styles, and the last three pages are in a smaller font. New issues appeared in Swedish in 1747 and 1752, the speech was reprinted in Latin numerous times in different issues of the ""Amoenitates"", and it was translated into English and German. When occupying oneself with the greatest modern zoologist, Carl von Linné, the founder of binominal nomenclature, one rarely comes across references to his philosophical theory of the world. Unlike many modern thinkers, 18th century scientists and philosophers did not find the notion of God as ruler of the Universe incompatible with hard scientific facts. On the contrary, the relationship between God and Nature was an issue of crucial importance to many natural scientists of the period. The present speech constitutes the most important declaration of Linnaeus' thoughts on the subject, presenting him as what we would call a ""physicotheologist"". By means of the ""curiosities among insects"", Linnaeus here presents Nature as a single, self-regulating global entity - an entity that is a wonder created by God. The present publication constitutes one of the most personal works that Linnaeus ever wrote and provides with a direct insight into his entire world view - the view of the world that enabled us to properly classify and systematize all living things. It is not least due to the present work that Linnaeus was so widely admired by the greatest of his contemporaries. In his own time he was not only admired for his great scientific accomplishments, he became famous for wider cultural reasons and for the moral qualities that understream his scientific work. That is the main reason why he was considered a hero by the likes of Rousseau and why the likes of Goethe made debating Linnaeus a pastime in fashionable Romantic circles. The work is of the greatest scarcity. OCLC lists merely six copies in libraries world-wide, two of which are in the US: Kansas State University and North Carolina State University. The remaining four copies are in: Sweden, France, UK, and The Netherlands. ROLAND MARTIN (1726-1788) was prominent physician, who was a student of Linnaeus. He studied at the University of Uppsala and here defended his dissertation in 1745 (under Linnaeus). He was nominated professor of medicine twice, but refused both times. He was considered an excellent teacher and a great physician, but he was a controversian man and caused dramatic debacle when he left the Collegium medicum and joined the Societas chirurgica (only to return in 1766, with a tarnished reputation). Hult, p. 31-32.BMC 3141Soulsby 1341‎

‎Flora Lapponica exhibens Plantas per Lapponiam Crescentes, secundam Systema Sexuale Collectas in Itinere... Additis Synonymis, & Locis Natalibus Omnium, Descriptionibus & Figuris Rariorum, Viribus Medicatis & Oeconomicis Plurimarum.‎

‎Amsterdam, Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf. Light wear to top of spine. Light wear along fronthinge. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece. Titlepage in red/black. (40),372,(38) pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Printed on good paper. Internally clean and fine.‎

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‎Scarce first edition of this highly important work, which is one of the first in which Linné worked out his binomial nomenclature, being of ""prime importance for the nomenclature of Arctic-Alpine species"".On May 12th 1732, Linnaeus set out on his journey into Lapland, returning to Uppsala on October 10th, after adventures in snow and sleet, discovering 'novelties in all three kingdoms of nature', including many new plants. All this he recorded in diary and catalogue... Linnaeus worked on the present volume during his sojourn in Leyden and at the Clifford estate at Hartecamp in Holland. A Society was formed at Amsterdam to defray the expenses of the plates.., and the 'Flora Lapponica' came forth in 1737, just ahead of the 'Geneve plantarum' and the 'Hortus Cliffortianus'. Botanists had waited for it expectantly, and they received it with accaim. (Hunt No. 502).""The journey was the most adventurous that Linnaeus ever made" it has been assessed by his fellow-countrymen as the most fruitful single scientific expedition ever made in Sweden both for its immediate botanical results and its influence on Linnaeus's later career. It led to the publication in 1737 of his Flora Lapponica which is of prime importance for the nomenclature of Arctic-Alpine species" Linnaeus's Lapland specimens, on which this was based, are in Paris."" (The Linnaean Correspondance).Hulth: p. 21 - Soulsby: No. 279.‎

‎Système sexuel des végétaux suivant les classes, les ordres, les genres et les espèces, avec les caractères et les différences. Première interprétation française calquée sur les éditions de Murray, Person, Wildenow, augmentée et enrichie de notions élémentaires, de notes diverses, d'une concordance avec la méthode de Tournefort et les familles naturelles de Jussieu, etc ---- 2 volumes (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Bertrand, 1810, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane verte, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliure postérieue), (tache d'encre sans gravité sur la page de titre du tome 1), T.1 : (2), 449pp., T. 2 : (2), 482pp.‎

‎---- Deuxième édition REVUE et AUGMENTEE ---- "During his lifetime, Linnaeus exerted an influence in his fields -botany and natural history- that has had few parallels in the history of science. Driven by indomitable ambition and aided by an incredible capacity for work, he accomplished the tremendous task that he had set for himself in his youth : the establishment of new system for the three kingdoms of nature to facilitate the description of all known animals, plants and minerals... There was at that time an urgent need for a simple and easy-to-grasp system for the plant kingdom... Since the time of Cesalpino many botanists had tried to create a useful system ; and toward the eighteenth century some of these systems had begun to win considerable support, especially those of John Ray and Tournefort, based upon the appearance of the corolla. But none was sufficiently practical, and the various systems were reciprocally competitive, thus increasing the confusion. Only Linnaeus'system, based on sexuality, had the requisite of being generally adoptable... Around 1720 the sexuality of plants was still being disputed by many botanists. Linnaeus had already learned about it from his teacher Rothman... As a student he had pursued the subject through his own investigations and soon was convinced of its truth. In Praeludia sponsaliorum plantarum (1730), he announced that the stamens and pistils were the sexual organs of plants. At the same time he began to investigate whether the stamens and pistils could be used to construct a new botanical system. After a short period of doubt he was sure that they could and in Systema naturae he presented the sexual system in its definitive form... To be sure, the system was attacked ( in Germany by Siegesbeck and Heister, in Switzerland by Haller and in France where Thournefort's system had long been generally accepted). But acceptance of the sexual system could not be halted ; it gained footing almost everywhere, especially in England, beginning in the 1760's". (DSB VIII)**3329/CART7-3333/CART5‎

‎Système sexuel des végétaux suivant les classes, les ordres, les genres et les espèces, avec les caractères et les différences. Première édition française, calquée sur celles de Murray et de Persoon, augmentée et enrichie de notions élémentaires ; de notes diverses ; d'une concordance avec la méthode de Tournefort et les familles naturelles de Jussieu, etc par N. Jolyclerc ---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Ronvaux, 1798, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (1 coin légèrement émoussé, petite piqure de vers à la partie inférieure d'un mors), (3), 789pp.‎

‎----- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "During his lifetime, Linnaeus exerted an influence in his fields -botany and natural history- that has had few parallels in the history of science. Driven by indomitable ambition and aided by an incredible capacity for work, he accomplished the tremendous task that he had set for himself in his youth : the establishment of new system for the three kingdoms of nature to facilitate the description of all known animals, plants and minerals... There was at that time an urgent need for a simple and easy-to-grasp system for the plant kingdom... Since the time of Cesalpino many botanists had tried to create a useful system ; and toward the eighteenth century some of these systems had begun to win considerable support, especially those of John Ray and Tournefort, based upon the appearance of the corolla. But none was sufficiently practical, and the various systems were reciprocally competitive, thus increasing the confusion. Only Linnaeus'system, based on sexuality, had the requisite of being generally adoptable... Around 1720 the sexuality of plants was still being disputed by many botanists. Linnaeus had already learned about it from his teacher Rothman... As a student he had pursued the subject through his own investigations and soon was convinced of its truth. In Praeludia sponsaliorum plantarum (1730), he announced that the stamens and pistils were the sexual organs of plants. At the same time he began to investigate whether the stamens and pistils could be used to construct a new botanical system. After a short period of doubt he was sure that they could and in Systema naturae he presented the sexual system in its definitive form... To be sure, the system was attacked ( in Germany by Siegesbeck and Heister, in Switzerland by Haller and in France where Thournefort's system had long been generally accepted). But acceptance of the sexual system could not be halted ; it gained footing almost everywhere, especially in England, beginning in the 1760's". (DSB VIII)**3327/A2-3328/CART.7‎

‎Philosophie botanique de Charles Linné... dans laquelle sont expliqués les fondements de la botanique, avec les définitions de ses parties, les exemples des termes, des observations sur les plus rares...‎

‎Paris, Rouen chez Cailleau, chez Leboucher le jeune 1788 1 vol. relié in-8, plein veau moucheté miel, dos lisse orné de fleurons et roulettes dorés, pièce de titre, tranches jaunes, IV + 456 + (4) pp., 11 planches gravées hors-texte. Edition originale française traduite du latin sur les éditions de Vienne (1770) et de Berlin (1780) par François-Alexandre Quesné. Dos un peu frotté, coins légèrement émoussés, sinon très bon exemplaire.‎

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‎Système des Plantes, contenant les classes, ordres, genres et espèces, les caractères naturels et essentiels des genres, etc... Extrait et traduit des ouvrages de Linné...‎

‎Lyon chez Bruyset aîné et Buynand 1804 5 vol. relié 5 vol. in-8, demi-veau fauve moucheté, dos lisses ornés de fleurons et filets dorés, pièces de titre ("Règne végétal") et de tomaison, (2) + LXXIX + 532, (4) + 467, (4) + 648, (4) + 518 pp. et pagination multiple en romain pour les tables du tome V, avec son feuillet d'errata in-fine, portrait-frontispice de Linné par C. Boily au tome I. Edition originale de cette compilation de textes de Linné, extraits et traduits par Mouton-Fontenille de Laclotte (1769-1837), professeur de botanique et d'histoire naturelle à la Faculté des sciences de Lyon et directeur du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon de 1816 à 1831. Ex-libris manuscrit ancien sur la première page de titre, avec des passages soulignés et des annotations manuscrites de la même main dans les pages d'introduction. Dos frottés, sinon exemplaire plaisant, en reliure d'époque.‎

‎Philosophie botanique dans laquelle sont expliqués les fondements de la botanique‎

‎ ,A Paris et A Rouen, Chez Cailleau et Chez Leboucher le jeune 1788, iv-456 pp., 1 vol. in 8 relié avec Les définitions de ses parties, Les exemples des termes, Des observations sur les plus rares. Enrichie de figures. Traduit du latin par Fr.-A. Quesné . Reliure pleine basane mouchetée, dos lisse orné de motifs dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin vert avec titre doré, tranches jaunes, mors fendus (mais reliure solide), coiffes et coins frottés, quelques rousseurs (reliure de l'époque). Privilège du Roi in fine. Bien complet des 11 planches hors-texte.‎

‎système sexuel des végétaux‎

‎première édition française,calquée sur celles de Muray et Persoon,augmentée et enrichie de notions élémentaires,de notes diverses,d’une concordance avec la méthode de TOURNEFORT et les familles de JUSSIEU etc.. ; par JOLYCLERC 2 tomes en 2 volumes in 8 plein cuir fauve raciné,dos lisse, pièce de titre cuir rouge, fers, roulette,filets, palmettes dorés;Tome 1:faux-titre, titre,1 feuillet,384 pages,2 feuillets d’errata,tranches jaspées.Tome 2:faux-titre,titre,pages 385 à 788,pagination continue,1 page avis.Levacher An VII(1799),2coins légèrement émoussés ‎

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‎Systême sexuel des végétaux, suivant les classes, les ordres, les genres et les espèces, avec les caractères et les différences. Premiere édition française calquée sur celles de Murray et de Persoon, augmentée et enrichie de Notions élémentaires; de notes diverses; d'une concordance avec la Méthode de Tournefort, et les familles naturelles de Jussieu,etc, etc. par N. Jolyclerc, naturaliste et homme de lettres.‎

‎ 1798 basane époque (restaurée). in-8, (3ff.), 789pp., P. Ronvaux An VI (1798),‎

‎Première édition française. ‎

‎Plantes utiles du monde entier‎

‎Fernand nathan. Non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 194 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 580-Botanique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 580-Botanique‎

‎Plantes utiles du monde entier.‎

‎Couverture rigide. Cartonnage illustré. 12 x 18 cm. 194 pages.‎

‎Livre. 128 planches en couleurs de Edgar Hahnewald. Editions Fernand Nathan (Collection : Nouveaux guides du naturaliste), Vers 1970.‎

‎Podsol och brunjord. En studie av vegetation och jordmånsbildning inom östra Skånes ås- och skogsområden. Podsol and Brown Earth. A study in vegetation and soil formation in east Scania.‎

‎1960 2 volumes (complete). 233, 10 p., 35 folded pls (profiles), paperbound (text) & spiralbound in slipcase (plates). Publications from The Institute of Mineralogy, Paleontology, and Quaternary Geology. University of Lund.‎

‎Le petit Linné de la jeunesse.‎

‎ P., Tournai, Casterman, 1890, in 12, cartonnage percaline lilas décoré de l'éditeur, 668 pages. ‎

‎Illustré de nombreuses vignettes. PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande .......................... ‎

‎Diæta Naturalis A 33. Linnés tankar om ett naturenligt levnadssätt. Utg. av Arvid Hj. Uggla.‎

‎Uppsala, (1958). 222 pp., 2 plancher.‎

‎Öländska och Gotländska Resa på Riksens Höglovlige Ständers Befallning förrättad år 1741. Red. af Carl-Otto von Sydow. Illustr. af Gunnar brusewitz.‎

‎Stockholm, 1977. Orig. papbd. med smudsomslag. 391 pp., 2 kort, tekstillustr.‎

‎Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift årgang 1978. Commemorative Volume.‎

‎Uppsala, 1979. Lex8vo. 318 pp.‎

‎Egenhändiga Anteckningar af Carl Linnæus om sig Sielf med Anmärkningar och Tillägg.‎

‎Upsala, Palmblad & Co., 1823. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtite. Øverste del af ryg løsner sig. Kobberstukket titelblad og bogtrykt. (20),XXIV,(8),248,(10) pp., 1 foldet genealogisk tabel, 6 plancher, hvoraf 5 er kobberstukket. Stort eksemplar, brede marginer. Indvendig ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir.‎

‎Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram‎

‎Franfort surle Main Sumtu Varrebtrappii et Wenneri 1789-1791 2 In-8 Veau marbré, dos lisse 879 [pp] Nouvelle édition avec mention de huitième, en partie originale du classique ouvrage du botaniste suédois Carolus Linné (1707-1778),père du célèbre Carl von Linné établie d'après la septième de 1778 par Schreber (1739-1810), élève de Linné & directeur du jardin botanique de l'Université d'Erlangen.Recueil complet en 2 volumes publiés en 1789 et 1791,‎

‎ Sciences Naturelles Disponibilité sous réserve de vente en boutique, prix valable frais de port inclus pour commande > 90 € et poids < 1 Kg‎

‎Gotländska Resa förrättad 1741. (samt) Öländska Resa förrättad 1741. 2 Bd.‎

‎Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 1958 og 1957. 2 orig. papbd. med smudsomslag. 187,176 pp. Tekstillustrationer og 2 foldekort.‎

‎Reisen durch Oeland und Gothland, welche auf Befehl der hochlöblichen Reichsstände des Königreichs Schweden im Jahr 1741. angestellt worden. Aus dem schwedischen übersetzt. Mit Kupfern.‎

‎Halle, Curt, 1764. Bound in a nice contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (32),364,(24) pp., 2 folded engraved maps, 3 engraved plates. A neath repair to upper inner corner of margin on some of the first leaves. Otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎First German edition - and the only translation in any foreign language - of ""Öländska och Gothländska Resa..."", Stockholm & Uppsala, 1745.Soulsby,207. - Hulth,45.‎

‎Systematis plantarum Europae pars Philosophica. - Fundamentorum botanicorum pars prima, exhibens omnes dissertationes academicas, quae varios aphorismos, philosophiae, bontanicae illustrare possunt.‎

‎Teil 5-6 (von 7) = Band 1-2 in 2 Bänden. Köln, Allobrogum, 1786. 8°. LXXV, LXXVI, 604 S.; (4) 732, 52 S. Mit 5 gest., gef. Kupfertafeln u. 1 gef. Tabelle. Halbleinenband des 20. Jahrhunderts.‎

‎Soulsby 20. - Band 5 und 6 (von total 7 Bänden) herausgegeben von Jean Emmanuel Gilbert. Die "Fundamenta botanica" Nr. 1 - 56. - Durchgehend stockfleckig und mit einigen Wurmgängen.‎

‎SYSTEME SEXUEL DES VEGETAUX, suivant les classes, les ordres, les genres et les espèces, avec les caractères et les différences, par Charles Linné. 1re édition française, calquée sur celles de Murray et de Persoon, augmentée et enrichie de notions élémentaires, de notes diverses, d'une concordance avec la méthode de Tournefort et les familles naturelles de Jussieu, etc., etc., par N. Jolyclerc‎

‎Paris Ronvaux 1798 in-8 demi-veau un volume, reliure d'époque demi-veau havane in-octavo (binding half calfskin in-octavo), RELIURE D'EPOQUE, dos long (spine without raised band) décoré or (gilt decoration), titre frappé or (gilt title), pièce de titre sur fond noir avec roulette or cernée d'un double filet "or" de part et d'autre du titre, roulette or cernée d'un double filet "or" de part et d'autre en place des nerfs et en tête et en pied, entre-nerfs à fers spéciaux "or" (baton de pâtre, panier, trompette, grand chapeau, et cabrette), avec légers manque de dorure, papier peigné marron aux plats (cover with painting paper), tête lisse (top edge smooth), toutes tranches lisses (all smooth edges), sans illustrations (no illustration), deux tableaux dépliants (méthode de Jussieu)dont un trés grand in-fine, [2]-789-[1] pages, An VI - (1798) A Paris, chez Ronvaux Editeur, ‎

‎1ère Edition Française......Nicolas Jolyclerc (mort en 1817), ancien moine de la congrégation des bénédictins de Saint-Maur originaire de Lyon, se consacra à la botanique avec la sécularisation des couvents et obtint la chaire d'histoire naturelle de l'École centrale de l'Oise. En 1797, il donna une nouvelle édition des Éléments de Tournefort et, l'année suivante, les traductions françaises du Système sexuel et de la Cryptogamie de Linné. Quérard V, 319-320.....RARE.......en bon état (good condition). bon état ‎

‎The Life of Sir Charles Linnæus, to which is added a copious List of his Works, and a biographical Sketch of the Life of his Son. Translated from the Original German by Joseph Trapp.‎

‎London, E. Hodson, 1794. 4to. Cont. hcalf, gilt and gilt lettering to spine. Hinges neathly repaired. Corners a little bumped. Engraved portrait of Linné (J. Heat sculp.) as frontispiece. XXXVIII,435 pp. Large copy with broad margins. Internally fine and clean, a few leaves with brownspots, mainly in margins.‎

‎First English edition. Soulsby: 2627.‎

‎Örtabok 1725. Utg. av Svenska Läkaresällskapet till Linnéjubileet 1957 genom Telemak Fredbärj.‎

‎Stockholm, (1957). Ohshirt. Bindet overtrukket med gennemsigtigt plastik. Lille biblioteksstempel på titel. 320 pp., talrige tekstillustr., 4 plancher.‎

‎Vita Caroli Linnæi. Carl von Linne´s självbiografier.‎

‎Stockholm 1957. Orig. halvshirt. 234 pp. Illustreret.‎