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Geer, Baron Carl de.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Mémoires pour server à la histoire des insectes, tome premier. Stockholm: L.L. Grefing, 1752
volume 1 only (of 7), 4to (245 x 199mm.), 37 folding plates, contemporary sheep, spine gilt in compartments
Provenance
Pehr Osbeck (1723-1805), Swedish naturalist; Bradley Martin, booklabel
Catalogue Note
presentation copy, inscribed by linnaeus, signed with his initials C.L., to his friend and former pupil Pehr Osbeck. This is one of twelve copies that de Geer, a wealthy amateur entomologist, sent to Linnaeus for the latter to distribute to those whom he thought most worthy. Osbeck had just returned from a lengthy visit to China, to which Linnaeus refers in his five-line presentation.