A Voyage to China and the East Indies. Together with A Voyage to Suratte by Olof Toreen and An Account of the Chinese Husbandry by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg.; to which are added, a faunula ad florula sinensis
Author: Pseter "Pehr" Osbeck (1723 -1805)
Year: 1771
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin White
Place: London
Description:
2 volumes. xx+396 with 13 engraved plates; (ii)+367+(1)+(32 index) pages. Lacks half titles. Octavos (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period half leather with five raised spine bands lettering in gilt over marbled boards. First English editions.
Pehr Osbeck was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in the parish of Hålanda on Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus.
In 1750–1752 he travelled as chaplain on the ship Prins Carl to Asia where he spent four months studying the flora, fauna, and people of the Canton region of China. He returned home just in time to contribute more than 600 species of plant to Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, published in 1753.
In 1757 he published the journal of his voyage to China, Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk Resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752, which was translated into German in 1762 and English in 1771. In 1758, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Condition:
Rebound with renewed end papers. Lacks half titles, some occasional foxing else better than very good.
