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A Linnaean Keepsake / The Hunt Botanical Library

Book
Issued to commemorate the opening of the Stranded Collection of Linnaean at the Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University. Brown water marbled covers, with spine covered with brown cloth. Facsimile in a pocket attached to the back cover. Preface by Gilbert S. Daniels. "An Introduction to Linnaeus" by Birger Stranded. "Orbit Eruditi Judicium" by Carl Linnaeus
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2025.16.28

Howard Kistler

25.8 cm

19 cm

17.3 cm

10.9 cm

1 book 1 facsimile of "Orbit Erudite Judicium de Caroli Linnaei M. D. Scriptis", where the pages haven't been separated yet.

Hunt Botanical Library

Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

United States

North America

6/1/1973

Duquesne Lithograph Co.

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

United States

North America

1973

Case binding

Colophon at back - Text set in Spectrum monotype. Display type is Hunt Roman designed for The Hunt Botanical Library by Hermann Zapf. Text and illustrations printed by offset by Duquesne Lithograph co. on Curtis Hunt No. 2 rag paper. Facsimile printed by letterpress by Davis & Warde, Inc., from plates made from the original by Liberty Engraving Co., on handmade paper with the Hunt watermark made by J. Barcham Greene & Son at the Halle Mill, Maidstone, Kent, England. Bound by Penn State Bookbinding, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Design and supervision by Thomas C. Pears III.

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