301. CARL VON LINNÉS FAUNA SVECICA IN THE FIRST EDITION 1746 WITH COPPER STICK.

Linné, Carl von, Swedish naturalist, (1707-1778). Fauna Svecica sistens Animalia Sveciae regni: mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per Classes & Ordines, genera & Species, Cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Autorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Habitationum, Descriptionibus Insectorum. Apud Conradum Wishoff et Georg Jac. Wishoff, 1746. First edition. 8vo in a contemporary half-French binding with gilt spine text, sparse spine gilt and sprinkled covers. Engraved front stove, (XXVIII), 390 p. + 2 fold-out engraved plates.
Provenance Gunnar Brusewitz with his ex-libris and Richard Wahlgren, Lund.
This Leiden edition has been regarded as a pirate edition of the first edition printed in Stockholm. But it is in practice fully equivalent to the Stockholm edition.