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Flora lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas, in lapponis svecicis scilicet umensi, pitensi, lulensi, tornensi, et kemensi nec non lapponiis norvegicis scilicet norlandia et finmarkia utraque indigenas, it itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807 et 1810 denuo investigatas

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Flora lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas, in lapponis svecicis scilicet umensi, pitensi, lulensi, tornensi, et kemensi nec non lapponiis norvegicis scilicet norlandia et finmarkia utraque indigenas, it itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807 et 1810 denuo investigatas

by WAHLENBERG, George

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Berlin: In Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis, 1812. FIRST EDITION. With the large folding map of Lapland, hand-coloured in outline, l folding engraved table, and 30 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked; interior lightly browned. With a large bookplate from the Academiae Harvardianae donation fund of 1842 (received 1849 and withdrawn). First edition of the author's main work in the field of plant geography, the results of his four excursions to Lapland and northern Norway. The book includes descriptions of well over a thousand plants with an index to genera and species. It is considered rare and important.

Wahlenberg (1780-1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He was appointed botanic demonstrater and later professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg.

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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
10885
Title
Flora lapponica exhibens plantas geographice et botanice consideratas, in lapponis svecicis scilicet umensi, pitensi, lulensi, tornensi, et kemensi nec non lapponiis norvegicis scilicet norlandia et finmarkia utraque indigenas, it itineribus annorum 1800, 1802, 1807 et 1810 denuo investigatas
Author
WAHLENBERG, George
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Edition
FIRST EDITION
Publisher
In Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis
Place of Publication
Berlin
Date Published
1812
Keywords
botany, geography, natural science, travel & exploration, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, german imprints, 19th century

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