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OSBECK (PETER) A Voyage to China and the East Indies, 2 vol., 1771; and 2 others (4)
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £625 inc. premium
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OSBECK (PETER)
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... Eckeberg. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster... To which are added a Faunula and Flora Sinensis, 2 vol., 13 engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked (with gilt leather spine labels), corners worn [Cordier Sinica 2097-98; Löwendahl 558; Lust 350; Pritzel 6865], 8vo, Benjamin White, 1771--AVRIL (PHILIPPE) Travels into Divers Parts of Europe and Asia, Undertaken by the French King's Order to Discover a New Way by Land into China, 2 parts in 1 vol., first English edition, title printed in red and black, some browning, without advertisement leaf, contemporary ruled calf, rebacked [ESTC R16481; Cordier Sinica 2088; Löwendahl 207; Lust 311], 12mo, Timothy Goodwin, 1693; and another (4)
Footnotes
The journal of the Swedish explorer and naturalist Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805), who went by ship to China to study the flora, fauna, and people of the Canton region; sold with Avril's earlier account of his mission to find an overland route to China in 1685, by way of Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor and Persia before he was turned back at Astrakhan.
Provenance: First work, James Lewis, ownership signature dated 1835; second work, early ownership signatures of Charles Hind, Oxford, 1711.