Thunberg (C. P.): Voyages au Japon, traduits, rédigés et augmentées ... par L. Langles ... et revus par J.B. Lamarck, Paris, chez Benoît Dandré [and others], 1796, 4 vols., 8vo, second French edition, engraved frontispiece and 28 plates (some light browning), 19th-century morocco-backed cloth. [Cordier 447] (4)

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Thunberg (C. P.): Voyages au Japon, traduits, rédigés et augmentées ... par L. Langles ... et revus par J.B. Lamarck, Paris, chez Benoît Dandré [and others], 1796, 4 vols., 8vo, second French edition, engraved frontispiece and 28 plates (some light browning), 19th-century morocco-backed cloth. [Cordier 447] (4)

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Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1822), Swedish physician and botanist, was one of the last pupils of Linée. Determining to travel abroad to collect material, he took employment as medical officer in the Dutch East India Company. In Japan, he collected botanical specimens, while teaching medicine in Nagasaki and Edo. 'These travels are exceedingly valuable with respect to the natural history' (Cox, Literature of Travel, p.343)

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