JOHAN WILHELM PALMSTRUCH (1770-1811), SVENSK BOTANIK. 1-10, Stockholm & Uppsala, 1803-1829.
720 hand-coloured engraved plates, each with descriptive text-leaf.
Collation of all ten volumes corresponds with the collation given by Krok, Bibliotheca Botanica Suecana, pp. 98-100.
Ten volumes in contemporary binding, contrasting red and green labels on spines. 6to [23,2 by 15 cm]. (10)
Wear, some stains. One volume with crack at spine.
Saleroom notice
Bindings with some minor damage. Minor tearing, folding and traces of insects.
Literature
Krok, pp. 98-100. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, 55. Nissen 2223. Lindroth, Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens historia 1739-1818, 2, pp. 434-441. Stafleu TL2 7247. Dal, Med kolorerade figurer : Handkolorering i Sverige under 1700- och 1800
-talen, p. 277-83. Dal, Sveriges zoologiska litteratur, p. 118.
More information
First edition of the "Swedish Sowerby", "a work esteemed by contemporaries as an enterprise of national importance. Palmstruch's own illustrations, in the six first volumes, have been characterized as the best pictures of plants ever produced in
Sweden, and make this one of the most beautiful of Swedish books"(Lindberg).
The work is usually found incomplete, as most of the stock of the eleventh volume was destroyed by fire before distribution.