First edition. Sparrman had sailed with Carl Gustaf Ekeberg as a ship's surgeon to the East Indies and Canton (Guangzhou) in 1765-66. In this dissertation he gives a brief account of the voyage and an enumeration of the plants and animals observed by him. It is one of the last dissertations advised by the great botanist and father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
Cut in upper margin, otherwise uncut, partly stained. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Hulth, p. 139; Löwendahl, China illustrata nova, supplement item 1659; Soulsby 2393.