[BOTANY] FRIES, Elias. *Novitiae Florae Suecicae*. Second ed - Lot 42

[BOTANY] FRIES, Elias. *Novitiae Florae Suecicae*. Second edition, expanded and revised in the form of a commentary on Wahlenberg’s *Flora Suecica*. Everything about Swedish flora, by the great botanist Elias Fries, nicknamed the “Linnaeus of fungi.” Londini Gothorum (Lund), printed by Berlingiana, 1828. In-8, light brown half-calf, smooth spine decorated with fleurons and gold fillets and repeated cold-stamped motifs, black title label, speckled edges. XII and 306 pages. In Latin. Normal wear and scuffing on the binding; scratches on the title label. New revised edition, on bluish paper, based on the work of Göran Wahlenberg, professor of botany at Uppsala University, whom the author succeeded. Bound together with the following: - *Novitiarum Florae Suecicae. Mentissa prima. Accecit commentatio de Salicibus* (Lund, ex officina berlingiana, 1832, 80 pp.) - *Novitiarum Florae Suecicae*. *Mantissa altera*. *Additis plantis in Norvegia recentius detectis* (Uppsala, Lefflert and Sebell, 1839, (2) and 64 pp.). An excellent collection of three studies by Elias Fries (1794–1878), a Swedish mycologist and botanist who laid the foundations for the classification and cataloging of fungal species. A copy virtually free of foxing, in a contemporary binding.