93. ELIAS FRIES SPECIMENS OF WAHLENBERG'S FLORA LAPPONICA 1812.

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93. 2764969. ELIAS FRIES SPECIMENS OF WAHLENBERG'S FLORA LAPPONICA 1812.

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LAPPONICA. WAHLENBERG, GEORG. Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas in Lapponiis Svecicis scilicet Umensi, Pitensi, Lulensi, Tornensi et Kemensi nec non Lapponiis Norvegicis et itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807, et 1810 denuo investigatas. Berlin, in Taberna Libraria Scolae realis, 1812.

8th (approx. 200x120 mm.). (5), VI-LXVI, (1)-550 pp. 1 fold-out hand-colored engraved map (slightly brown-stained), 1 fold-out printed table, 1 engraved table (repaired marginal tear, slightly brown-stained), 30 engraved plates (all, occasional brown-stains) . Text occasional brown stains, pp. 225-254 with ink stains in lower outer margin).
Later brown hfrbd, slightly worn, gold decorated spine with five raised bindings, splash cut. Signature in upper margin on title page Elias Fries, bookplate Ove Almborn.

Ref. The Goblin 2092; Marklund 8119; Hook p. 743:7; Stafleu: TL-2 16518.
In 1826, C. Sommerfelt published a supplement: "Supplementum florae Lapponicae quam edidit Georgius Wahlenberg". See Hook p. 743.

Wahlenberg, Georg (Göran), 1780-1851), Swedish professor of medicine and botany in Uppsala in 1829 after Thunberg Provenance: Elias Fries (1794-1878) from Femsjön in Småland, often called the "father of mycology", quickly became a world name in botany and above all in mycology. His major breakthrough "Systema mycologicum" began to be published as early as 1821. His world reputation was strengthened by works such as "Epicris systematis mycologici" (1836-38), "Hymenomycetus Europaei" (1838) and "Icones". His main efforts were in the systematics and description of the fungi. However, he belonged to the romantic conception of nature, so his division into classes and subclasses is now obsolete, but "...his distinction of different spore colors still has important taxonomic value, and he is especially remembered for his ability to describe species." (DSB).
Ove Almborn (1914-1992), Swedish botanist and lichenologist.
Olle Wallin (1934-2021), MSc in economics, worked after his degree, among other things at Svenska Handelsbanken and the construction company Beijers under Anders Wall. The interest in both books and plants was already in the family, both parents were both bookish and had a great interest in nature. Olle Wallin's interest in books blossomed when he came back to Stockholm in the 1970s and he then became a frequent visitor to the antiquarian book scene. Many trips at work, mainly to the USA and Europe, were often combined with visits to antique shops and auctions where he acquired many of his interesting works. .

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93. 2764969. ELIAS FRIES SPECIMENS OF WAHLENBERG'S FLORA LAPPONICA 1812.

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LAPPONICA. WAHLENBERG, GEORG. Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas in Lapponiis Svecicis scilicet Umensi, Pitensi, Lulensi, Tornensi et Kemensi nec non Lapponiis Norvegicis et itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807, et 1810 denuo investigatas. Berlin, in Taberna Libraria Scolae realis, 1812.

8th (approx. 200x120 mm.). (5), VI-LXVI, (1)-550 pp. 1 fold-out hand-colored engraved map (slightly brown-stained), 1 fold-out printed table, 1 engraved table (repaired marginal tear, slightly brown-stained), 30 engraved plates (all, occasional brown-stains) . Text occasional brown stains, pp. 225-254 with ink stains in lower outer margin).
Later brown hfrbd, slightly worn, gold decorated spine with five raised bindings, splash cut. Signature in upper margin on title page Elias Fries, bookplate Ove Almborn.

Ref. The Goblin 2092; Marklund 8119; Hook p. 743:7; Stafleu: TL-2 16518.
In 1826, C. Sommerfelt published a supplement: "Supplementum florae Lapponicae quam edidit Georgius Wahlenberg". See Hook p. 743.

Wahlenberg, Georg (Göran), 1780-1851), Swedish professor of medicine and botany in Uppsala in 1829 after Thunberg Provenance: Elias Fries (1794-1878) from Femsjön in Småland, often called the "father of mycology", quickly became a world name in botany and above all in mycology. His major breakthrough "Systema mycologicum" began to be published as early as 1821. His world reputation was strengthened by works such as "Epicris systematis mycologici" (1836-38), "Hymenomycetus Europaei" (1838) and "Icones". His main efforts were in the systematics and description of the fungi. However, he belonged to the romantic conception of nature, so his division into classes and subclasses is now obsolete, but "...his distinction of different spore colors still has important taxonomic value, and he is especially remembered for his ability to describe species." (DSB).
Ove Almborn (1914-1992), Swedish botanist and lichenologist.
Olle Wallin (1934-2021), MSc in economics, worked after his degree, among other things at Svenska Handelsbanken and the construction company Beijers under Anders Wall. The interest in both books and plants was already in the family, both parents were both bookish and had a great interest in nature. Olle Wallin's interest in books blossomed when he came back to Stockholm in the 1970s and he then became a frequent visitor to the antiquarian book scene. Many trips at work, mainly to the USA and Europe, were often combined with visits to antique shops and auctions where he acquired many of his interesting works. .

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Books, Maps & Manuscripts Spring 2023

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Books, Maps & Manuscripts Spring 2023

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8–13 June, Nybrogatan 32, Stockholm

OPENING HOURS
Monday–Friday 10am–6pm. Saturday–Sunday 11am–5pm

There is a scent in old libraries that can hardly be compared to anything else. Like a historical perfume that can transform day into night, winter into spring. Behind heavy old wooden doors, it can age like a fine bottle of wine. And when the door, like the cork of a bottle, opens up to release its vapors, it becomes an atmosphere of famous wings, curious events, intriguing stories, and remnants of bygone scientists, historians, poets, writers, a few chefs, cartographers, and many others whose words and images were once printed and thus, if not immortalized, at least made timeless for a few centuries. All of that can now be experienced at Stockholms Auktionsverk as they open the doors to the long-awaited auction of Books, Maps, and Manuscripts.

Here, an impressive selection of texts, writings, volumes of all kinds, maps, and other miscellaneous items within the field are presented. Among the latter is a miniature globe in a fish skin case from the 18th century. It is a remarkable object and bears no resemblance to the Skånska Gruvornas poster for the General Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1897. In it, we find examples of the graphic expressions and advertising art of the turn of the previous century. Alongside Samuel Bourne's photographs from India, they are part of the outskirts of the auction but can still generate great interest. Der Türkische Schau-Platz from the 1680s, with no fewer than 137 woodcuts, is a true rarity. The same can be said of the volume containing Otto von Guericke's famous hemispherical experiments, published in Amsterdam in 1672. The splendid Flora Danica, consisting of 17 volumes, is another highlight of the auction, filled with as much botany as one could ever desire.

But these are just a few samples from an auction that encompasses a vast array of fantastic printed materials accumulated over centuries of Gutenbergian dreams, forward-looking scientific ideals, and, not least, a great deal of imagination!

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