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 Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg.; Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster; to which are added, a faunula ad flora sinesis.

London: Benjamin White, 1771. First edition in English. 8vo. 2 volumes: xx, 396; (2), 367, (32) pp. 13 engraved plates; lacks half-titles. Bradley Martin sale 1772. Recent contemporary-style calf, leather labels and gilt rules on spines; ex-institutional copy, with stamps on several leaves, title-page to volume one re-margined. Still a solid copy in an attractive new binding. Item #46849

Price: $2,000.00