Voyages De C.P. Thunberg, Au Japon, Par le Cap …

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Quarter green leather over green marbled boards, gilt spine bands, red labels, gilt titles, 8vo., 21.5×13 cm, Benoit Dandre, Paris, An 4 [1796], [4].lxiv, 417, [2] pp, Portrait frontis, one vignette, one engraved plate, Very good, light shelfwear, French text. Thunberg was a Swedish botanist and physician. He has been called the “father of South African botany” and “the Japanese Linnaeus”. He was a student of Linnaeus. This is the first volume of a four volume set. Weight: 1.2 lb.