FIRST EDITION OF SPECIES PLANTARUM. LINNÉ, CARL VON. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ed genera relatas,... secundum Systema sexuale digestas. Ed. I. I-II. Holmiae (Stockholm), Lars Salvius, 1753.
Large 8:o. (193x120 mm.) (12), 1-560; (2), 561-1200, (32, with errata, last page blank) pp.
Contemporary full vellum, later endpaper in vol. I, first endpaper cut in upper margin, redspeckled edges. Some old (contemporary?) annotations in lower margins. Bookplate of Thorild Wulff. 2 volumes.
Stafleau: TL-2 4769; Hunt Botanical Books 548; Pritzel 5427 Soulsby 480a, Hulth 89-92.
First edition. "The foundation of "binary nomenclature" in botany, and thus the starting-point of modern botanical nomenclature." (Sandbergs bokhandel, catalogue 12).
With the cancellated leaves 75-76, 89-90 and 259-60 and therefore the second issue that Linnaeus himself had replaced and reprinted.
Thorild Wulff (1877-191),Swedish botanist and polar explorer.
