OLOF KALMETER'S COPY OF LINNAEUS' SPECIES PLANTARUM IN first edition second issue, 1753, 2 volumes.

FIRST EDITION OF SPECIES PLANTARUM LINNÉ, CARL VON. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ed genera relatas,... secundum Systema sexuale digestas. Ed. I. I-II. Stockholm (L. Salvius) 1753.

Large 8:o. (12), 1-560; (2), 561-1200, (30), (2, errata, last blank) pp.
Contemporary brown half calf, somewhat worn, gilt spines in six compartments, small damage at foot of vol. II. Signature on titles "Kalmeter", on inside of upper board "Pet. Boling". 2 volumes in a new cassette.

REF. Stafleau: TL-2 4769; Hunt Botanical Books 548; Pritzel 5427 Soulsby 480a, Hulth pp. 89-92. First edition.
"The foundation of "binary nomenclature" in botany, and thus the starting-point of modern botanical nomenclature." (Sandbergs bokhandel, catalogue 12).
With the cancellated leaves 75-76, 89-90 and 259-60 and therefore the second issue that Linnaeus himself had replaced and reprinted.

Provenance: Olof Kalmeter (1711-1766), physician, Linnaeus' brother in law;
Petrus Boling, headmaster in Gävle 1786-1805;
Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall. His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.

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