HOLM'S DISSERTATION WITH ACCOMPANYING LETTER FROM LINNE

HOLM, GEORGIUS TYCHO (+) CHRSTIAN HENRIC BIERING.

Prodromus Florae Danicae, quem, suffrag. Experient. Facult. Medic. in Regia Academia Upsaliensi, praeside… Carolo Linnaeo… publice censurae sistit Georgius Tycho Holm, Fyonia-Danus (+) Manuscript copy of a letter from Linne to Holm in contemporary hand (+) Maecenatibus, Litterarum Patronis, Patribus Civibusque Academicis et Urbicis (+) Rygtet om den af sit Fæderne-Land saa vel fortiente Georg Tycho Holm.

Uppsala, L. M. Höjer, 1757.

4to. In later marbled paper covered boards. Front free end-paper with annotations in later hand. Title-page with stain and with light occassional marginal brownspotting throughout. 26, (1), (2), (22) pp. + 1 folio-leaf with manuscript copy of a letter from Linne (Not in the hand of Linne). 

First and only edition of Holm’s botanical dissertation, defended at Uppsala under Carl Linne. One of the earliest systematic attempts at a flora of Denmark and closely connected to the Flora Danica project. Dissertations defended under Linnaeus are of great interest in themselves but this particular copy is accompanied by a highly interisting letter of recomendation from Carl Linne himself (although not in the hand of Linne), in which Linne is praising Holm’s mastery of natural history and medicine, his successful defense of Prodromus Florae Danicae, his scientific travels and his fine specimen collections.

Order-nr.: 62519