Lot 349
K.P. Thunberg, Voyages au Japon. 4 Vol. Paris 1796.
Estimate
€ 400
Starting Price
€ 260
Lot:
349
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
C(arl) P(eter) Thunberg
Thunberg, C(arl) P(eter): Voyages au Japon, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de la Sonde, etc. Traduits, rédigés et augmentés par L. Langlès et revus par J. B. Lamarck. 4 Vol. Paris: B. Dandré, Garnery among others 1796. 19 x 13 cm. With a framed portrait frontispiece, a framed head vignette and 27 (5 folded) copper plates. Marbled leather with a red spine label and elaborate spine decoration
(Scuffed and bumped, with frequent missing sections at the head and tail; the reverse is partially flaked. Damp and age-stained in places; often with a glue shadow margin at the start, except on the half-title page and title page. In Vol. IV, plates 1 and 2 are printed from a single sheet and folded, which is why reference copies vary in their plate counts between 27 and 28 plates. One plate is too closely trimmed, resulting in loss of image.)
Cordier BJ 447 ff. Old Japan Catalogue 1514. Eutin Catalogue 1388. – First French edition translated from the Swedish, also published in quarto format. - The travel account by the Swedish naturalist and pupil of Linnaeus, Thunberg, contains botanical observations as well as natural history and ethnographic descriptions of the regions of South Africa, Java, Ceylon and Japan from the years 1770–1779. The plates depict flora, fauna, tools, weapons, jewellery, etc.
(Scuffed and bumped, with frequent missing sections at the head and tail; the reverse is partially flaked. Damp and age-stained in places; often with a glue shadow margin at the start, except on the half-title page and title page. In Vol. IV, plates 1 and 2 are printed from a single sheet and folded, which is why reference copies vary in their plate counts between 27 and 28 plates. One plate is too closely trimmed, resulting in loss of image.)
Cordier BJ 447 ff. Old Japan Catalogue 1514. Eutin Catalogue 1388. – First French edition translated from the Swedish, also published in quarto format. - The travel account by the Swedish naturalist and pupil of Linnaeus, Thunberg, contains botanical observations as well as natural history and ethnographic descriptions of the regions of South Africa, Java, Ceylon and Japan from the years 1770–1779. The plates depict flora, fauna, tools, weapons, jewellery, etc.