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J. W. Palmstruch J.W. Palmstruch and others: Svensk botanik. 12 vols. Stockholm and Uppsala 1802–1843. 8vo. With 728 (of 774) (most) hand-coloured engraved plates. Numbered 1–774. Not complete. The first 7 vols. are complete. The missing 46 plates are replaced in photo colour copy. This set incl. the rare 36 later issued plates. Some text leaves replaced with facsimiles in the last 3 vols. Bound in 6 cont. (23×14 cm) and 5 later half leather bindings (25.5×16.5 cm), the later bindings bound by Henning Jensen. Enclosed vol. I in 2nd printing. Complete. (12) Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch (1770–1811), also known as “the Swedish Sowerby” was an army officer, who had learned drawing from Desprez. He planned this magnificent work using as models Oeder's “Flora Danica” and Sowerby's “English Botany”. He started in collaboration with the engraver Carl Wilh. Venus (1770–1851) and the botanist Conrad Quensel (1767–1806) with financial support from the Academy of Sciences, which was responsible for publishing the work. The text was written by the most distinguished botanists of the period, Quensel, Olof Schwartz, Elias Friis, Göran Wahlenberg and Peter Fredrik Wahlberg. After Palmstruch's death the drawings were made by Gustaf Johan Billberg, Chancellor of the Exchequer and botanist, by Swartz, Lars Levi Laestadius, A.J. Agrelius, and P.F. Wahlberg. Palmstruch's own illustrations, in the six first volumes, have been characterized as the best pictures of plants ever produced in Sweden. Nissen, BBI #2223. Provenance: The Danish pharmacist Sven-Erik Sandermann Olsen (1920–2016).
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