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Bibliotheca Botanica Suecana ab antiquissimis temporibus ad finem anni MCMXVIII - Svensk Botanisk Litteratur från äldsta tider t.o.m. 1918

by Krok, T.O.B.N.

Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell
Published In : Stockholm
Illustrations : portrait frontis

Description:

First edition. Text Swedish. Thorgny Ossian Bolivar Napoleon Krok (1834-1921), a Swedish bibliographer and botanist, complied this seminal volume, listing and describing literature on Swedish flora, ranging from early printed works to the early 20th century. Includes a detailed entry on the works of Carl Linnaeus.

Condition

Roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine darkened, minor wear, title in black to front board, contrasting title piece to spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Some neat marginal pencil markings against the entries for Linnaeus. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few neat ink stamps; shelf label removed from spine. Good.