The Linnaeus Apostles. Global Science & Adventures. Hansen, Lars. (Ed.). Botany Monographs

Eight volumes bound in eleven (a complete set) with reproductions of 18th century plates, photographs, fold-out maps and two tapa cloth samples (as published). 4to. Fine hardbacks in nr. fine to fine dws. Comes with the Publisher’s 32-page, illustrated, catalogue providing a detailed overview of each volume’s content and full information on the series’ production process. Also comes with the Publisher’s introductory letter providing detail of the series in an illus. postcard. In-print at £930.00. The Apostles of Linnaeus were a group of students who carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world that were either devised or approved by botanist Carl Linnaeus. All the accounts of the apostles' journeys to every continent are published here for the first time in English; those of the apostles who left no travel journals are described through their correspondence or other sources. In the introductory and concluding volumes world experts in various subject fields will provide accounts of the 18th century, of Linnaeus, of travelling and the hardships of field work, together with biographies and a comprehensive new bibliography of the publications of the apostles.