Kalms Resa til Norra America 1753 first edition
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KALM, PEHR. (3). En resa til Norra America... I-III. Stockholm (Lars Salvius) 1753-61.
8vo (170x105 mm). (24), (1)-484, (20), (2), (1)-526, (22), (1)-538, (14) pp. 1 engraved folding plate in part 3, Cohoss forss eller fall vid Mohaks flod (all, minor foxing), and some woodcuts in the text, of which two full-page.
Brown contemporary half leather bindings, partly worn, spines in five compartments, vol. I darkbrown. Titles with some ink markings. Some foxing, some staining in the beginning of vol. III. 3 volumes.
Schiötz 511a***. Pritzel 4572. Krok 337:8. Original and first Swedish edition.
Kalm (1717-79) wrote his important 18th century account of American natural history. He travelled in America (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Canada) between 1748 and 1751 "with a view of introducing plants for food, medicine or manufacture in Sweden" (The Linnaeus catalogue, Sandbergs bokhandel, 1957). Among other tasks assigned him byLinnaeus, was to find to find strains of Morus rubra, a plant which should supply food for silk worms.
Provenance: Birger Strandell (1901-1993), famous Swedish collector of Linnaeus. Strandell was a Stockholm physician and descendant of Linnaeus who built a private collection of Linnaean materials. A large part of his collections are in The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh USA.
Auktionsnummer:
6173
Date:
2016-12-20