Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia : performed between the years 1770 and 1779 : in three volumes ... / by Charles Peter Thunberg ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828.

Standardized Title:

Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia. English. 1793

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Africa, Southern--Description and travel.

Africa, Southern.

Southern Africa.

Japan--Description and travel.

Japan.

Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Sri Lanka--Description and travel.

Sri Lanka.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Europe--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Java (Indonesia)--Description and travel.

Java (Indonesia).

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations (engravings, part folded) ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by W. Richardson ... and J. Egerton ..., [1793]-1795.

Contents:

(from t.p.) v. 1. A voyage to the southern parts of Europe and to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa in the years 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773

v. 2. Two expeditions to the interior part of the country adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope, and a voyage to the island of Java, performed in the years 1773, 1774 and 1775

v. 3. A voyage to Japan and travels in different parts of that empire in the years 1775 and 1776

v. 4. Travels in the empire of Japan and in the islands of Java and Ceylon, together with the voyage home.

Notes:

Translation of: Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia förrättad åren 1770-1779.

Vol. 4 has imprint: London : Printed for F. and C. Rivington ..., 1795.

Imprint date for v. 1-3 supplied by BM.

Vol. 2 contains a Malay dictionary; v. 3, a romanized Japanese dictionary.

Pref. to v. 4 includes a bibliography of the author's writings.

Each vol. has an index.

Advertisement: v. 4, recto of final leaf.

Errata: v. 4, p. [xxii]

OCLC:

30090197