SOLANDER, DANIEL. Duyker, Edward & P.Tingbrand.

Daniel Solander. Collected Correspondence 1753-1782.

Melbourne, 1995. XVIII,466 pp. Hardcover,d/j.

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SOLANDER, DANIEL; DUYKER, EDWARD; TINGBRAND, PER.

Daniel Solander. Collected Correspondence 1753-1782. Edited and translated by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand.

First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 466; numerous b/w plates, 3 maps, botanical terms, Swedish Terms and Titles, bibliography, botanical index, zoological index, general index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; The Miegunyah Press; 1885. 'Daniel Solander, the eighteenth century Swedish naturalist and traveller, was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland. This collection of letters is based on research in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia. Some 180 letters written either by or to Solander were located and copied.'

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