Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 253

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
THUNBERG, CARL PETER. Voyage en Afrique et en Asie, principalement au Japon, pendant les Années 1770-1779. xii, 532 pages, including half-title, but with pages [v]-viii (Préface du Traducteur) bound between pages 530 and 531. 8vo, 197x128 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt with calico endpapers by Letourmy of Orléans, surface imperfections on spine and covers; marginal foxing through much of volume. Paris: Fuchs, 1794

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first abridged edition in french of Thunberg's 1788-93 account in Swedish of his scientific voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Java, and Japan. DSB XIII, 391-92.