Description:
The original cover of the Lapland journey diary (which Linnaeus later rebound) with additional pages not included in the bound diary.
6 folios have been left within which contain:
1. Notes on the sex in plants;
2. draft for a possible preface;
3. classical quotations for the Iter Lapponicum;
4. names of persons met with in Lapland;
5. idem;
6. draft of a letter to Dillenius about 1734;
7. classical quotations;
8. names of persons;
9. Lappish vocables and phrases;
10. beginning of a preface;
11. receipt of things sent to Uppsala;
12. about nomination of plants;
13. names of persons, etc.;
14. botanical and bibliographical notes;
15. Lappish woman, drawn by Linnaeus
16. sketch of a woman who plants a palu tree, with the subscription 'posteritati' (intended to be the motto in Fundamenta botanica).
Title:
Original cover to 'Iter Lapponicum'
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1707-1778