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NATURAE OBSERVATIO
SPITSBERGEN - Science Expeditions
This monograph provides in-depth knowledge that can be used in various ways, inviting readers to explore it from different perspectives. It serves as a rare resource for specialised scientific readers while also offering a new overview of this Arctic world for those with a general interest in the su...

(Standard price EUR €225.00)
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THE LINNAEUS APOSTLES
Global Science & Adventure | 8 Volumes, 11 Books
DISCOVER THE WORLD WITH THE LINNAEUS APOSTLES This is the greatest research and publishing project ever on the chosen few who came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. During the 18th century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was to inspire seventeen of his pupils to travel to dist...

(Standard price EUR €680.00)
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THE LINNAEUS APOSTLES - Global Science & Adventure | Individual volumes from the book set
Volume One
Volume One contains twelve background chapters, divided between three sections that deal respectively with Sweden and the rest of the world in the 18th century (chapters One to Three), with Carl Linnaeus and his scholarly environment (chapters Four to Six) and with the technical aspects of 18th-cent...

(Standard price EUR €174.00)
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THE LINNAEUS APOSTLES - Global Science & Adventure | Individual volumes from the book set
Volume Seven
This volume - EUROPE, SOUTHERN AFRICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, EAST-, SOUTHERN- & SOUTHEAST ASIA - contains the accounts left behind by PEHR OSBECK, OLOF TORÉN, CARL FREDRIK ADLER, CHRISTOPHER TÄRNSTRÖM and DANIEL SOLANDER. They are unique multidisciplinary documents, with a geographical range ex...

(Standard price EUR €147.00)
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NATURAE OBSERVATIO
SPITSBERGEN - Science Expeditions
This monograph provides in-depth knowledge that can be used in various ways, inviting readers to explore it from different perspectives. It serves as a rare resource for specialised scientific readers while also offering a new overview of this Arctic world for those with a general interest in the su...

(Standard price EUR €225.00)
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Textilia Linnaeana
Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade
The seventeen Linnaeus Apostles were early scientific global travellers; young men who during half a century travelled to more than fifty countries on all seven continents under commission of the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Academies of Sciences, East India Companies or private patrons....

(Standard price EUR €65.00)
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Carl Linnaeus Clavis Medicinae Duplex
The two keys of medicine
Clavis Medicinae Duplex, published in 1766, is a short treatise of only some thirty pages. It is nonetheless hard to categorise. One could regard it as a number of pharmacological tables but also as a physiological map of how the body reacts to various impressions. It may be described as a summation...

(Standard price EUR €39.00)
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Doctor Carl Linnaeus Physician
Most people know that Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is world-famous for the system of nomenclature he developed, still used by botanists and zoologists to this day. He is also known for his travels throughout Sweden and descriptions of the Swedish landscape, and for having inspired worldwide travel for ...

(Standard price EUR €27.00)
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The Carl Linnaeus Notebook 1725 - 1727
The Carl Linnaeus Notebook 1725 - 1727; the very first work written by the world famous naturalist. This is probably one of the most important works to help us understand the real Linnaeus. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was uniquely gifted in the field of natural and cultural sci...

(Standard price EUR €140.00)
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Christopher Tärnströms Journal
En resa mellan Europa och Sydostasien år 1746
Christopher Tärnström (1711-1746) was the first of Linnaeus’ students to be instructed to study and document Natural and Cultural History outside Europe – he became the first so-called Linnaeus’ apostle. Tärnström travelled as a ship’s chaplain on the East Indies Ship “Calmar”. The...

(Standard price EUR €64.00)
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The Complete Catalogue
The Linnaeus Apostles – Global Science & Adventure
The Complete Catalogue for the monumental work 'The Linnaeus Apostles: Global Science & Adventure' provides an overview and inside stories of this set of eight volumes – comprising in all eleven books and over 5,500 pages. This is the greatest research and publishing project ever on the chosen fe...

(Standard price EUR €12.00)
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The Return of the Naturalists – Iceland
Sweden | England | Scotland | Iceland
The Explorer’s Field Guide – Bridge Builder Expeditions: | The Return of the Naturalists – Iceland. A scientific voyage to Iceland in 1772. Daniel Solander, Joseph Banks and Uno von Troil – Sweden, England, Scotland & Iceland. The voyage towards Iceland set out from Gravesend on 1...

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The Return of the Naturalists
Spitsbergen | Svalbard
The Explorer’s Field Guide – Bridge Builder Expeditions: | The Return of the Naturalists – Spitsbergen | Svalbard. A story about the Linnaeus' Apostle Anton Rolandsson Martin's Voyage in 1758 – Estonia | Sweden | Norway | Finland. The Linnaeus’ apostle Anton Rolandsson Martin travelled a...

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The Return of the Naturalists
Sweden | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Russia...
This field guide – ”The Linnaeus Apostles Bridge Builder Expeditions: Sweden, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & Russia | Путеводитель исследователя – Экспедиции Апостолов Линнея по наведению мостов во времени – Швеция, ...

(Standard price EUR €5.00)
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Impressions of London
From the late Summer of 1840
Impressions of London: from the late Summer of 1840, is a travel journal from a past era – translated in its entirety from Johan Peter Bager’s (1818-1888) original handwritten diary. Follow the young Swedish traveller, as he walks through the streets of København and Hamburg en route for London...

(Standard price EUR €23.00)
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Charles E. Nelson - A White Tohunga
The Biography of a remarkable Navigator, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian
This is the story about a young Swedish man who settled down in New Zealand, among both the Māori people – indigenous population – and the settlers. Compared to the English, Scots and Irish he was, with his Scandinavian background, an unusual settler in the middle of the 19th century. In his ne...

(Standard price EUR €23.00)
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Bear Island
The story of an isolated Arctic Island – Exploration, People, Culture and Nature
Bear Island is almost an illusion: now you see it, now you don't. Years ago, trading ships on their way to Spitsbergen could skirt the fog shrouded island without setting eyes on it. Others, less fortunate, driven ashore by arctic storms or poor navigation drowned or became arctic castaways! In thes...

(Standard price EUR €30.00)
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Nya huset i Andrarum. Anno 1741
Piperska Handlingar No. 1
A record of the final inspection of the completed building of the Christinehof Manor House, or as the record was named "Andrarums Gård" (Andrarum House). Due to the detailed research by former chief inspector of historical monuments, Carl-Filip Mannerstråle (1924-2002), this unusual record of the ...

(Standard price EUR €20.00)
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NATURAE OBSERVATIO
SPITSBERGEN - Science Expeditions
This monograph provides in-depth knowledge that can be used in various ways, inviting readers to explore it from different perspectives. It serves as a rare resource for specialised scientific readers while also offering a new overview of this Arctic world for those with a general interest in the su...

(Standard price EUR €225.00)
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Textilia Linnaeana
Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade
The seventeen Linnaeus Apostles were early scientific global travellers; young men who during half a century travelled to more than fifty countries on all seven continents under commission of the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Academies of Sciences, East India Companies or private patrons....

(Standard price EUR €65.00)
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Carl Linnaeus Clavis Medicinae Duplex
The two keys of medicine
Clavis Medicinae Duplex, published in 1766, is a short treatise of only some thirty pages. It is nonetheless hard to categorise. One could regard it as a number of pharmacological tables but also as a physiological map of how the body reacts to various impressions. It may be described as a summation...

(Standard price EUR €39.00)
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The Textile History of Whitby 1700-1914
A lively Coastal Town between the North Sea and North York Moors
Whitby, situated on the North Sea coast is foremost associated with its rich history during the period 1700 to 1914; the early alum industry, James Cook, whaling fleets, fishing, tourism and Victorian jet manufacturing. The town was relatively isolated by land until the coming of the railway, though...

(Standard price EUR €78.00)
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Doctor Carl Linnaeus Physician
Most people know that Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is world-famous for the system of nomenclature he developed, still used by botanists and zoologists to this day. He is also known for his travels throughout Sweden and descriptions of the Swedish landscape, and for having inspired worldwide travel for ...

(Standard price EUR €27.00)
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The Carl Linnaeus Notebook 1725 - 1727
The Carl Linnaeus Notebook 1725 - 1727; the very first work written by the world famous naturalist. This is probably one of the most important works to help us understand the real Linnaeus. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was uniquely gifted in the field of natural and cultural sci...

(Standard price EUR €140.00)
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Christopher Tärnströms Journal
En resa mellan Europa och Sydostasien år 1746
Christopher Tärnström (1711-1746) was the first of Linnaeus’ students to be instructed to study and document Natural and Cultural History outside Europe – he became the first so-called Linnaeus’ apostle. Tärnström travelled as a ship’s chaplain on the East Indies Ship “Calmar”. The...

(Standard price EUR €64.00)
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Inventarium uppå Meubler och Allahanda Huusgeråd wid Christinehofs Herregård Upprättadt Åhr 1758
Piperska Handlingar No. 2
Sweden in the 18th century was in a state of upheaval – big changes confronted science, economics and politics. Via a unique inventory from the historical archive of Högestad & Christinehof entailed estate and Viveka Hansen’s descriptive texts, we are transported to a world long gone – to an ...

(Standard price EUR €20.00)
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Textilia Linnaeana
Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade
The seventeen Linnaeus Apostles were early scientific global travellers; young men who during half a century travelled to more than fifty countries on all seven continents under commission of the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Academies of Sciences, East India Companies or private patrons....

(Standard price EUR €65.00)
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The Textile History of Whitby 1700-1914
A lively Coastal Town between the North Sea and North York Moors
Whitby, situated on the North Sea coast is foremost associated with its rich history during the period 1700 to 1914; the early alum industry, James Cook, whaling fleets, fishing, tourism and Victorian jet manufacturing. The town was relatively isolated by land until the coming of the railway, though...

(Standard price EUR €78.00)
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Textile Squares & Zigzags
RÖLAKAN 20 unique and numbered hand bound copies
A rare and unique book that combines deep textile knowledge with beauty that only a hardbound book can give its owner – a truly piece of craft and art! This monograph – in twenty unique and numbered hand bound copies only – is a continuation of a northern European textile research project, wh...

This unique book can only be ordered in the main Books & Art department.

Textila Kuber och Blixtar
Rölakanets Konst- och Kulturhistoria.
This is the modern reference work on the subject ”Rölakan” – based on a research project, which stretched from the 1980s into the 1990s of interlocked tapestries in textile collections in northern Europe. It was published with the title ‘Textila Kuber och Blixtar: Rölakanets Konst- och Kul...

(Standard price EUR €67.00)
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Inventarium uppå Meubler och Allahanda Huusgeråd wid Christinehofs Herregård Upprättadt Åhr 1758
Piperska Handlingar No. 2
Sweden in the 18th century was in a state of upheaval – big changes confronted science, economics and politics. Via a unique inventory from the historical archive of Högestad & Christinehof entailed estate and Viveka Hansen’s descriptive texts, we are transported to a world long gone – to an ...

(Standard price EUR €20.00)
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La Collection Khalili
et ses textiles de la Scanie
This is the official printed catalogue from La Collection Khalili exhibition at the Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris – spring 2000, which is written in French. It includes a comprehensive summary of the history of weaving techniques from southern Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries. All the obj...

(Standard price EUR €5.00)
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Flygspaning efter Historia
This book ‘Flygspaning efter Historia’ [Looking at History from the Air] is based on the work of airforce major and archaeologist, Esse Ericsson (1921-1996). Ericsson, who was renowned for being unconventional, introduced systematic aerial photography to Scandinavia in the 1950s and 1960s, 'flyi...

(Standard price EUR €43.00)
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Farväl till ett kulturarv?
As with most of Europe, the southern Swedish province of Skåne is characterised by usage and ownership. Estates are frequently seen as an unshakeable part of our cultural heritage, they possess a certain beauty that commands respect; a feeling that frequently stems from the fact that the lands have...

(Standard price EUR €20.00)
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Øresundsområdet
Verdensklasse: Eksempler & Perspektiver
Interdisciplinary reflections via thoughts about a region’s identity from historic, contemporary and future perspectives. The Øresund Link, a gigantic bridge and tunnel project that opened in 2000, forms a permanent link between the nations Denmark and Sweden. The articles in the book, which ar...

(Standard price EUR €22.00)
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