OSBECK (Pehr). A Voyage to China and the East Indies, by Pet - Lot 122

OSBECK (Pehr). A Voyage to China and the East Indies, by Peter Osbeck,... together with A voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen,... and An account of the chinese husbandry, by captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster,... to which are added a Faunula and flora sinensis. London, printed for B. White, 1771. 2 volumes in-8, XX-396 p. + [1] f., 367 p., [16] f. (table, errata), pl., contemporary havana calf, 5-ribbed spine, red title page, gilt lettering and fillets (defects including faded headcaps, uncovered tailcaps, one upper split bit, freckling on one quire in t.2 and 2 f. in t.1, light ink stain on p.3 t.1). First English edition of this travel account by the Swedish naturalist Pehr Osbeck (1723-1805), a disciple of Linnaeus. It is accompanied by several other texts relating to the Far East. The work is illustrated with 13 copper-engraved plates, including 11 of botany, one of Chinese ideograms and one showing a fish. (Cordier, Bibl. sinica, 2098). Old signatures repeated on endpapers: Jean Achard; Marie Octavie Martin.