Caroli Linnaei medic. & botan. prof. Upsal ... Fauna Svecica, sistens animalia Sveciae regni
Subtitle: quadrupedia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, locis habitationum, descriptionibus insectorum
Contributors: Leche, Johan, 1704-1764, ill; Aldrich, John Merton, 1866-1934, former owner; Melander, A. L. (Axel Leonard), b. 1878, former owner; Bergquist, Carl, 1711-1781, engraver
Publisher: C. Wishoff et G.J. Wishoff
Published: 1746
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Zoology; Early works to 1800; Animals; Classification
Other titles: Fauna Svecica, sistens animalia Sveciae regni; Fauna Suecica, sistens animalia Sueciae regni; Caroli Linnaei Fauna Svecica; Caroli Linnaei Fauna Suecica
Notes: Pirated ed. of the ed. published by L. Salvii in Stockholm also in 1746--Cf. BM (NH) catalog, Hulth, and Soulsby.

Plate I signed: I. Leche pinxit, C. Bergquist sculpsit.

Woodcut tail-pieces.

Errata: p. [391].

Signatures: )()**(A-2A2B2C2D²()(5, A5, and Y4 missigned )(3, A9, and X4 respectively).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

BM (NH), III, p. 1136

Soulsby, B.H. Linnaeus, 1152

Hulth, J.M. Bibliographia Linnaeana, 48

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013489125) inscribed on 1st front free endpaper: J.M.. Aldrich, Moscow, Ida.; stamped on 1st front free endpaper: A.L. Melander from the library of J.M. Aldrich.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Library Aug 2 1881.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in plain vellum, title in gilt on spine; housed in a linen-covered box.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013489166) imperfect: lacking frontispiece.

SCNHRB c. 2 has occasional ink ms. notes.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Aug 21 1931 [acc. no.] 288422.

SCNHRB c. 2 quarter bound in recent blue paste-paper and black goatskin, title in gilt within red leather spine label, marbled edges.