Author: THUNBERG, CARL PETER:
Title: Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in 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.
Description: . Folio. Lvs (62) + pp. 7 + one page with Japanese colophon. Including 50 plates illustrating Japanese plants. Occasionally some spotting. Contemporary half calf, title lettered on spine, rubbed, cover slighty warped. A reprint of Thunberg's significant work on Japanese plants which he issued as a complement 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 articial island Dejima outside Nagasaki and had few opportunities to visit the mainland. However he was able 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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