First edition of the French translation of an account of the travels of the Swedish botanist Olof Torén (1718-1753), who served as chaplain to a Swedish East India Company voyage to China and India in the years 1750 and 1752. Torén recounted his voyage in a series of letters in Swedish to his former professor Linnaeus in Uppsala. During his travels, Torén sent many of the plants he found to Linnaeus, who even named one of the plants after him, the Torenia. Torén died shortly after finishing his travels, so Linnaeus himself decided to edit and publish the letters. The text is especially valuable for its botanical and agricultural information.
With a bookplate on paste-down. Occasionally some minor foxing around the margins, otherwise in very good condition, wholly untrimmed. Cordier, Sinica col. 2098; Lust 355.