FIRST EDITION OF SPECIES PLANTARUM - ÖDMAN'S COPY (2). 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. (202x120 mm.) (12), 1-560; (2), 561-1200, (32, with errata) pp.
Contemporary half calf bindings, partly worn, both upper boards with the gilt bookplate of the West Gothia student club (Västgöta nation) in Uppsala, spines in compartments and gilt titles, speckled edges. Both titles partly browned, title to vol. I with some dampstains to margins, which also continue on a few pages, text with some spotting and staining, some minor notes (mostly numbers and ticks) to margins. With the bookplate of Samuel Ödmann.
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.
Provenance: Samuel Ödmann (1750–1829), Swedish author, translator, priest and professor at Uppsala University amongst others. He is also famous for translating Cook, Bligh, Mungo Park and many more;
Karl Joar Westman (1939-2022), Swedish lawyer and banker, also an entrepreneur in India and Sri Lanka. He was a devoted collector of antiques, paintings, sculpture, arts and crafts and not least of books. He was the son of the minister and professor K. G. Westman and his wife Margit, née Printz.
