THE COLLECTION OF OLD PRINTED BOOKS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF

THE INSTITUTE OF BOTANY

Nadiia Kryvolchenko Head of Library

nadin-kr@ukr.net

M.G. KHOLODNY INSTITUTE OF BOTANY OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF

UKRAINE 2, TERESHCHENKIVSKA ST., 01601, KYIV, UKRAINE

OLD PRINTED BOOKS

The Collection of old printed books of the Scientific Library contains some valuable copies of works from different fields of botany: lichenology, mycology, systematics of plants, floristics, which illustrates the development of botanical science in the second half of the 16th - first quarter of the 19th century. Among them - the lifetime editions of works by Eric Aharius, Carl Allioni, Johann Albertini, Vilibaldus Besser, Fedor Bieberstein, John G. Gmelin, Albrecht Galler, Krzysztof Kluk, Matthew Lobelius, Carl Linnaeus, Christian Heinrich Persun, Peter Pallas, Joseph Pitton Tournefort and others.

L’OBEL, MATTIAS DE (1538–1616) ALLIONI, CARL (1725–1804)

The pride of the collection of old books is the work J. Tournefort «Institutiones rei herbariae» 1700, which provides for a classification of plants according to the structure of the flower. He is predecessor of C. Linnaeus, Professor Botanical Garden in Paris.

Quite interesting and rare is the work of a contemporary of Carl Linnaeus N. Necker «Methodus muscorum per classes, ordines, genera ac species», 1771.

TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE (1656–1708)

NECKER, NOEL JOSEPH DE (1729–1793)

The collection includes many works devoted to fungi and lichens. In particular, the classic works of H. Person «Icones et descriptiones fungorum minus cogniforum», 1798, «Micologia Europaea», 1822 – 1828, and E. Frieze «Systema mycologicum», 1830. They are the cornerstone of many of the rules for the use of Botanical Nomenclature regarding mushrooms.

Useful for lichenologist, at least in historical terms, remain the works by E. Aharius «Methodus qua omnes detectos lichenes», 1803 and «Synopsis methodica lichenum», 1814.

PERSOON, CHRISTIAN HENDRIK (1755–1837)

FRIES, ELIAS MAGNUS (1794–1878)

ACHARIUS, ERIC (1757–1819)

Many old printed books devoted to the results of research on the flora of certain areas of the Russian Empire, including Ukraine (of V. Besser, F. Bieberstein, E. Eyhvald, Y.H. Gmelin, J. Yundzill, P. Pallas). In the collection are stored works of other prominent botanists of the past, whose names are called modern botanical and mycological journals, for example, Willdenowia, Hedwigia more.

BESSER, WILIBALDUS (1784–1842) BIEBERSTEIN, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1768–1826)

GMELIN, JOHANN GEORG (1709–1755) PALLAS, PETER SIMON (1741–1811)

JUNDZIŁŁ, JÓZEF (1794–1877)

CARL VON LINNÉ (1707-1778)

Research Library of Institute of Botany has almost the most

comprehensive collection of works C. Linnaeus in Ukraine. It is

represented in the catalog of old printed books by 16 titles.

The funds of the Research Library of the Institute of Botany

presented lifetime editions of Carl Linnaeus, such as “Flora

Lapponica (Amsterdam, 1737), “Flora Zeylanica” (Stockholm,

1747), “Flora svecica” (Stockholm, 1755), “Systema naturae”

(Leiden, 1756), “Species Plantarum” (Wien, 1764),

“Philosophia botanica” (Wien, 1770), “Natursystem des

Mineralreichs…”, Vol. I – VI (Nurnberg, 1773 – 1775).

LIFETIME EDITIONS

The collection contains works of Carl Linnaeus published after his death. Basically it is a re-release of his lifetime works.

In particular, the “Systema plantarum”, P. I – IV (Frankfurt am Main, 1779-1780); “Termini botanici” (Hamburg, 1781); “Systema naturae”, Vol. I – III (Leipzig, 1788-1793); “Genera plantarum”, Vol. I – II (Wien, 1791); “Species plantarum”, Vol. III – IV (Berlin, 1800-1805); “Systema vegetabilium” (Gottingen, 1784; Vol. I-VI, Stuttgart, 1817-1820).

The collection of works of Carl Linnaeus

includes the dissertations of his disciples which

are represented in the publication

“Amoenitates academicae...”, Vol. I (Leiden,

1749), Vol. II-VII (Stockholm, 1762-1769).

DISSERTATIONS OF DISCIPLES OF CARL LINNAEUS

Linné, Carl. Amoenitates academicae... Vol. I – VII.

Old printed books from the collection have been published in the printing houses of 40 European cities. These include the editions of the famous Western European publishing firms Plantains, Breytkopf, Janson, Didot; printing house of Valhrizi, J. Zavadskiy, Y.T. Trattner, Schwan, Paris royal printing press, etc.

Basic amount of books of collections were printed in Latin and German, some of publications - in French, Polish, Italian and Russian.

In the study of old books, much attention was paid to the book marks (ex libris, super ex libris , stamp), which is a unique source for the study of the history of library institutions last.

As the evidence of provenance, a collection of old printed books have formed of the books that came from the library of the University of Vilnius , Vilnius Medico -Surgical Academy, Botanical cabinet and Botanical Garden Kiev University of St. Vladimir, private libraries of Hreptovych, Prof. Schmalhausen, Rector of Vilnius University Jan Snyadetsky , Doctor of Medicine Paul Chenpinsky.

They provide valuable information about ways to organize a collection of old printed books.

PERSPECTIVE

Reissue of catalog of old printed books of the

Scientific Library;

Site of collection of old printed books, which

will be presented an image of title pages of

books and theirs bibliographic descriptions;

Electronic catalog of old printed books.

Thank you very much for your attention