Rudbeck's Book of Birds in facsimile

RUDBECK'S BOOK OF BIRDS IN FACSIMILE. RUDBECK, OLOF THE YOUNGER / LÖWENDAHL, BJÖRN (ed.). Olof Rudbeck's Book of Birds. A Facsimile of the Original Watercolours [c. 1693-1710] of Olof Rudbeck the Younger in the Leufsta Collection in Uppsala University Library. I-II. Stockholm, Björck & Börjesson, 1986.
Folio. 443 x 292 mm. 99, (1 blank, 8, 1 blank, 1); (4) pp. and 165 colour plate-leaves. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles on spines. 2 volumes in original gild decorated blue cloth slipcase.
I: Text.
II: Plates.

Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. This is number 308.

As new. Comes paper-wrapped in printer's delivery box.

Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660-1740), Swedish linguist and naturalist. He lectured on ornithology at Uppsala in 1727-31, with Linnaeus, amongst others, in the audience. The book of birds was begun already in 1693, but wasn't published until 1985.

From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).