Caroli Linnaei archiatr. reg. med. et bot. profess. Upsal. ... Systema naturae
Subtitle: sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species redacta tabulisque aeneis illustrata
Contributors: Landin, Bengt-Olof, 1925- , former owner; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner; Dhombres fils
Edition: Secundum sextam stockholmiensem emendatam & auctam editionem.
Publisher: Impensis Godofr. Kiesewetteri
Published: 1748
Place of publication: Lipsiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Natural history; Classification
Other titles: Systema naturae
Work titles: Systema naturae
Notes: Reprint of the Stockholm edition, issued by the same publisher in the same year.

Includes indexes in Latin and German.

Names are cited in Latin, Swedish, and German.

Vignette on t.p.; t.p.

Signatures: *⁴ ( -*1) A-P⁸ Q-R⁴.

Leaf Q4 (p. [23]-[24], 3rd group) is blank.

BM (NH), v. 3, p.1127

Soulsby, B.H. Linnaeus (2nd ed.), 52

Schuh, C.P. Mineralogy & crystallography, 3489

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.), 4747

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Antiquariaat Forum BV; purchase; 4/2010; $358.00.

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SCNHRB has 2 copies: neither copy has the frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus referred to in some bibliographies, e.g. Soulsby. The blank leaf Q4 is present in both copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015278781) has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library; with Dall library stamp.

SCNHRB c. 1 has a modern embossed brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine. Some of the leaves have been clumsily repaired with clear tape.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015278823) is from the Bengt-Olof Landin Collection, sold by Crafoord Auction House, Lund, Sweden, cat. item no. 359. There is also an old stamp on t.p.: Dhombres fils.

SCNHRB c. 2 has plate 4 misbound between p. 38 and 39 (should be bound between p. 42 and 43)

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplates: 1) Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment, and 2) Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by Anonymous Donor.

SCNHRB c. 2 has a contemporary full leather binding with raised bands, gilt-tooled spine and red spine label, and red edges.