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2 volumes. xx, 396; [2], 367, [31(index)] & [1(errata)] pp. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster. Illustrated with 13 copper-engraved plates. 8x5, recent treated light brown calf, gilt-lettered red cloth spine labels, raised bands, new endpapers. First Edition in English.

Osbeck's keen observations of the husbandry, flora and fauna, and economics of China and the Far East. Bell O139; Cordier 2097-98; Cox I:352; Lust, Western books on China 350; Pritzel 6865. Ex-E.D. Merrill/New York Botanical Garden library copy. Typed label on preliminary in Volume I.