KALMS (Per) & & HOLLBERG (Esaias).

Med Guds hjelp! Norra americanska färge=örter, med Philosophiska facultetens bifall ...

Dissertation on American Indian Dyes.

First edition. 8vo. Period style recent half calf, spine gilt, title page expertly repaired with lower margin supplied, no loss of text, description of the book on a sheet of 1930s Maggs letterhead to front free endpaper. 8pp. Abo [Finland], Joh. Christ Frenckel, 1763.

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KALMS (Per) & & HOLLBERG (Esaias).
Med Guds hjelp! Norra americanska färge=örter, med Philosophiska facultetens bifall ...

With references to Kalm’s account of his travels, this is possibly the earliest printed survey of the dye plants used by the North Americans Indians. At that time, Kalm, the Swedish naturalist, was professor at Abo University in Finland. Not in Sabin; Pritzel, 4582.

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