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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Thunberg (Carl Peter)

VOYAGES DE C.P. THUNBERG AU JAPON

Published: Chez Benoît Dandré, Paris, An IV (1796)

Edition: First French Edition

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Par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de la Sonde, &c.

Traduits, rédigés et augmentés de notes considérables sur la Religion, le Gouvernement, le Commerce, l'Industrie et des Langues de ces différentes contrées, particulièrement. sur le Javan et Le Malai;

Par L. Langles ... ; Et revus, quant à la partie d'Histoire naturelle, par J. B. Lamarck ...

Avec des Planches.

4 volumes, I. lxiv, 417, (i). II. viii, (ii), 430. III. viii, 445. IV. xii, 462 pages, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I, 28 engrave plates - 7 folding, half title in each volume, modern black cloth, titled gilt on the spines, frontispiece in volume I working loose, text browned and some light staining througout, neat marginal annotation in ink in an old hand scattered through the four volumes.

An important work of travel to Japan and the Cape of Good Hope by the Swedish botanist and traveller who was a student of Linnaeus.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (205 x 125 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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