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Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit; Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo Britannico asservatis. Edited by Sir Joseph Banks.

Publication Details

London, 1791 CE.

Sir Joseph Banks was responsible for publishing most of Kaempfer's studies of Japanese plants, which had remained unpublished for more than 70 years. This work introduced many Japanese plants to Western botanists.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#12825
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15071
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLicones-select-plantarum-quas-in-japonia-collegit-et-delineavit

Geographic Context

Publication place: London