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8vo, 466pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Edward DuykerFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 524Some 180 letters written either by or to the Swedish naturalist and pioneer are reproduced here. 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. For many years a colleague of Joseph Banks, he sailed to the Pacific with Banks and James Cook in the Endeavour in 1768. With Banks, he described and classified more than one thousand new species. Solander's letters offer important insights into some of the foremost scientific issues of the day and his close association with such remarkable men as Carl Linnaeus, Banks, John Ellis and William Hunter. The letters give little hint that English was not his native tongue. His warm and relaxed style reveals considerable linguistic ability and explains why the novelist Fanny Burney fondly called him a 'philosophical gossip' and why James Boswell declared, 'Throw him where you will, he swims'. This collection is based on international research. Some 180 letters written either by or to Solander were located and copied and appear in their original language. Paperback.

Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 8vo pp.466. previous owners bookplate on verso of front cover. book.

1st edition limited to 1000 copies, No. 2 in the Miegunyah Press series. Foreword by Alan Frost. XVIII, (2), 466, (2) PP with 3 maps, plus 36 pages with 39 illustrations (12 colour and 27 b/w). Half-title page: Dr. Solander engraving & his signature. Hard cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Foxing spots on top outside edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. The Swedish naturalist who accompanied Joseph Banks on the first voyage of James Cook on the Endeavour (letters 90 to 106). Contains 188 letters from or to Solander in their original language with their English translation. (Letter 115 and others - Voyage of "Omai").

Publisher's boards. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Signed by each of the contributors, including W.T. Stearn (whose bookplate is on the front pastedown). 179 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xviii + 466pp., colour & b/w plates, maps, bibliog., indexes, 'The correspondence of the 18th Century Swedish naturalist & traveller, who was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history & one of the earliest collectors in New Holland'.

hardcover. Condizione: acceptable. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Scandinavian University Press, 1995. Heavy hardback with dustjacket. 466pp. Slight bumping to spine & boards, such that book is no longer straight. Some creasing, wear & small tears to dustjacket, which has sticker to rear. Stamp marking to top edge. Fair copy. book.

179 s. Illustrerad. Förlagets illustrerade klotband.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine large octavo xviii + 466pp., col. & b/w pls. & ills., maps, bibliog., indexes, One thousand copies of his edition were printed in Australia.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press [Melbourne University Press], 1995. Octavo, xx, 467 pages with 3 maps plus 36 plates (10 in colour). Papered boards; top corners very slightly bumped; a few unobtrusive annotations in pencil; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. This volume is 'number two in the second Miegunyah Press series'. It 'presents these [180] letters with proper scholarly rigour for the first time, with texts both in the original languages (Swedish, Danish, Latin, German, English), and in English translations, the latter meticulously annotated' (foreword). Daniel Solander (1733-1782) 'was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland. he sailed to the Pacific with Banks and James Cook in the "Endeavour" in 1768' (dustwrapper blurb). Correspondents include Carl Linnaeus, Joseph Banks, John Ellis and William Hunter. Loosely inserted are two related Australia Post philatelic items (an Australia-Sweden joint issue First Day Cover and two maxi cards). [3 items].

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