A GENERAL SYSTEM OF NATURE THROUGH THE THREE GRAND KINGDOMS OF ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, AND MINERALS,

Systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties,

With their habitations, manners, economy, structure and peculiarities.

Translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c.

Together with various modern arrangements and corrections, derived from the transactions of the Linnean and other societies...

With a life of Linné, appropriate copper-plates, and a dictionary explanatory of the terms which occur in the several departments by natural history by William Turton

First English edition: a complete set of 7 volumes: + 943 + (1) + 717 + (2) + 784 + 725 + 888 + (889-1851) + (29) + 352 + 42 + VI pages,.rebound in full blue leather titled gilt on the spines, the hinges have been reinforced, cancelled library stamp on the title pages, several plates ; light foxing, pages have been simply repaired with tape, a good set.

Sold With All Faults (W.A.F.): There appears to be a portrait and 2 plates missing in these volumes – plate 2 and 9 in volume 5 are not included.

Vol 7 has a 42 page account of the life and writings of Linné

Carter ( John) and Muir (Percy)Printing and the mind of man page No 192 pages 114 -115.The System of Nature is the starting point of modern systematic botany. Linnaeus, or Linne, as he called himself from 1762 onwards, went on a journey of exploration to Lapland in 1732, mainly to collect plants. In 1738 he established himself as a physician in Stockholm, became professor of Medicine at Uppsala, but exchanged this for the chair of botany. He compiled this work as the first outline of what in its further developments became the foundation of botanical and zoological classification sytems.

Unusual to find a complete set on auction