A Voyage to China and the East Indies by Pehr Osbeck, with 12 engraved plates
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Pehr Osbeck:
Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning, m.m. […] Jämte 12 tabeller och afledne skepps-predikanten Toréns bref.
Stockholm, L. L. Grefing, 1757. 8vo. (20 x 12 cms.) [8] + 376 + [16] pp. + 12 engraved plates. As often without the separately printed supplement by Ekeberg.
A very fine and clean copy in modern period-style half calf (Levins, Uppsala).
First edition of Linnaean disciple Pehr Osbeck’s account of his travels to the East Indies and China in 1750-52, with 12 engraved plates. It was later translated into German (1765) and English (1771).
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