THUNBERG, CARL PETER: - Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit. Parts i-v in one volume. Uppsala, J.F. Edman, 1794-1805. Facsimile edition. Tokyo 1934.

. Folio. Lvs (62) + pp. 7 + one page with Japanese colophon. Including fifty plates illustrating Japanese plants. Occasionally some spotting. Contemporary half calf, title lettered on spine, rubbed, especially along edges, cover slightly warped. A reprint of Thunberg's significant work on Japanese plants which he published as a supplement to his "Flora Japonica" (1784). The work comprises some of the first Western illustrations of Japanese species. Thunberg, Swedish botanist and pupil of Linneaus, visited Japan disguised as a Dutchman. He was confined to the artificial island Dejima outside Nagasaki and had few opportunities to visit the mainland. However, he managed to get a remarkable accurate picture of the Japanese flora. Cf Nissen BBI, 1960. Cf Pritzel 9258. Cf Safleu & Cowan 14364.

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