Lot 490
Linnaeus, Carolus
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: edition decima tertia, aucta reformata, cura Jo. Frid Gmelin. Leipzig: impens. Georg. Emanuel Beer, 1788-93. Thirteenth edition, 3 volumes in 9, with three folding engraved plates of minerals at the end of volume 3, contemporary quarter roan, vellum corners, marbled boards, uncut, rubbed and worn, with several boards detached, slight discolouration and spotting due to the poor quality of the paper
Footnote
Note: The original edition of the posthumous Gmelin edition of the Systema Naturae, adding new material, in particular with regards to the discoveries in the field of Zoology made over the previous 20 twenty years. This edition includes descriptions of numerous species from Cook's voyages. Gmelin revised the Systema naturae, beginning in 1788. By introducing new and acceptable binominals he was able to obtain authorship of numerous species, and many New Zealand molluscs and fish collected on Cook's voyage bear his names.