3 parts in one volume, 4to (275 x 195 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials and diagrams; 10 engraved plates (4 folding), one by Ehret. (Some spotting.) ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT (losses to spine, some soiling). Provenance: The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, embossed stamp on title-page, sold Sotheby's London, 25 October 2005, Sale L05409, Lot 1916). 

FIRST EDITION, THE MACCLESFIELD COPY

Linnaeus contributes four articles, including work on orchids and lobelia. Gronovius also contributes four articles, including a work on fish.  Other contributors include: Swedish mathematician, Samuel Klingenstierna, 4 articles (2 on solar eclipses); Finnish physician Helmut D. Sporing, one article on the trachea; Astronomer Peter W. Wargentin, to articles on the movement of Jupiter's moons; Albert Haller, 2 articles and numerous astronomical observations; and entomologist Carlo De Geer on Parvulis Insectis. Soulsby 396, 416 & 930.