Lot 4722: Rudbeck, Olof (1660-1740), the younger. , Nora-samolad, sive Laponia illustrata et iter per Uplandium, Gestriciam, Helsingiam. Uppsala, 1701 , [20], 79, [1]pp., parallel Latin and Swedish text, illustration : additional engraved title-page, 2 woodcut

Ibid. Illustri celeberrimoque viro, dn. Johanni Wallisio. [Uppsala, 1703] , [12]pp., illustration : woodcut initial 2 works in one volume, 4to (237 x 171mm.), binding : nineteenth-century blind-ruled calf by Hatton of Manchester, morocco lettering-piece

BL STC Scandinavian R451 (both works); Pritzel 7870

Olof Rudbeck, son of the famous naturalist of the same name, set out in 1695, at the behest of Karl XI, on a botanical tour of Lapland where he discovered fifty new plant types. Initially envisaged as a twelve-part work, this was the only chapter to be published, its further development supposedly stunted by the loss of much of Rudbeck's manuscript material in the 1702 fire at Uppsala. The diary Rudbeck maintained throughout his journey is preserved at the Linnean Society, whilst the sketch-book, the Iter Lapponicum, in which Rudbeck and his fellows painted water-colours of their discoveries throughout their journey, is part of the Leufsta Collection at Uppsala University Library. Rudbeck still held a professorial position at Uppsala when the young Linnaeus arrived at the university in 1728. Rubeck's map of the Baltic Sea is presented in the form of an elaborate "human map" representing the hunched figure of Charon, ferryman of the Styx.