BRELIN, JOHAN: - [SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Beskrifning öfver en äventyrlig resa til och ifrån Ost-Indien, Södra America, och en del af Europa, åren 1755, 56, och 57. Upsala, Tryckt i Kongl. Acad. Tryckeriet, 1758.

. Pp. (xii), 144, (6). Contemporary paper covered boards, later rebacked with calf spine lettered in gilt, rubbed. Old ownership inscription. [M.G. Wallenstråle (1733-1807), Swedish bishop of Gothenburg]. Book label. First edition of an adventurous voyage in the service of the Swedish East India Company to the East Indies and China in the 1750s. The expedition sailed via Cadiz and Java and arrived in Chinese waters in August 1755. The ship stayed at Canton for a few months and Brelin vividly describes the people who lived there. The return journey went via Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension Island. On the Ascension Islands, Brelin went ashore to fish for turtles and was accidentally left behind. His account from the ten-week stay on the Islands describes many different kinds of fish. Borba de Moraes p. 124. Holmberg pp. 43-44. Löwendahl 492.

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