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THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828); LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste de Monet de (1744-1829)Biblio.com

Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance les isles de la Sonde &c.

réf. 51407Traduits rédigés et augmentés de notes. particulièrement sur le Javan et le Malai par L. Langlès. et revus quant à la partie d'histoire naturelle par J.-B. Lamarck. A Paris : Benoit Dandré An IV 1796. Four volumes octavo handsome contemporary full calf with gilt borders bindings rubbed and with a few scuff marks flat spines elaborately decorated in gilt and with contrasting title and volume labels in gilt; marbled endpapers; Vol. 1: pp. 417 with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thunberg and 1 plate; Vol. 2: pp. 430 4 leaves of plates; Vol. 3: pp. 445 4 leaves of plates; Vol. 4: pp. 462 19 leaves of plates 6 folding; half-titles and titles with some offsetting at margins otherwise clean and crisp throughout the four volumes; a fine set. First French edition of Thunberg's travel accounts. Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg a pupil of Linnaeus and contemporary of Sparrman was an important figure in the development of the science of botany. In 1771 he was commissioned by the Dutch to collect specimens from southern Africa the East Indies and Japan for their botanical gardens in Amsterdam and Leiden. He sailed with the Dutch East India company to the Cape where he spent three years collecting and describing flora and fauna in the colony making three important excursions into the interior and also meeting and exchanging ideas with Sparrman who joined Cook's second voyage when it arrived at the Cape. Thunberg then visited Batavia Java for two months in early 1775 before sailing on to Japan where he remained for almost a year as a privileged guest of the director of the Dutch settlement in the Bay of Nagasaki. The set we offer here includes many fine plates illustrating flora fauna and ethnological specimens collected by Thunberg in the Cape Java and Japan as well as in Ceylon on his voyage back to the Netherlands. Before returning to Sweden - where like his compatriot Sparrman he had been made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - Thunberg visited London. There he made the acquaintance of both Sir Joseph Banks and J. R. Forster encounters which undoubtedly led to the confluence of scientific knowledge gained on Cook's voyages and Thunberg's own. Thunberg's later study of Japanese plants Flora Japonica was published in 1784 and was the first major treatise on Japanese botany published in the west. Cordier Japonica 447; Brunet 5:850 unknown

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[Claude MONET] - [Auguste RODIN]Biblio.com

Claude Monet - Auguste Rodin. Exhibition catalog

1889réf. 88035Paris: Galerie G. Petit 1889. Fine. Galerie G. Petit Paris 1889 16 x 24.50 cm broché First edition of the exceptionally rare catalog of Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin's dual exhibition at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris. With introductory essays by Octave Mirbeau for Monet and Gustave Geffroy for Rodin. The catalog features 145 paintings by Monet and 36 sculptures by Rodin in chronological order including the famous Impression soleil levant Impression Sunrise as well as Le Penseur The Thinker still described as a part of the Gates of Hell for which it was originally created. Small restoration to head of spine title and dates penned on spine traces of stamp on front pastedown scattered foxing thoughout. Rare copy of the exhibition catalog of Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin: the greatest of the Impressionists and the most famous sculptor of his time united by their love of nature and their tireless quest towards artistic ideal. ""Rodin and Monet were bound by a lifelong friendship and reciprocal admiration. While they were true contemporaries born within two days of one another in November 1840 it is hard to pinpoint when they actually met. They were almost certainly introduced by mutual friends like writers and critics Octave Mirbeau and Gustave Geoffroy or the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. On his return from Belle-Île in 1886 Monet is known to have started attending dinners held by the ""Bons Cosaques"" a group of artists and men of letters gathered together by Octave Mirbeau. Rodin also frequented these literary and artistic dinners that contributed to the intellectual effervescence of the period and challenged Academicism. By the time of the exhibition held at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1889 the four protagonists Rodin Monet Mirbeau and Geffroy definitely knew and already respected each other. On a visit to the Mirbeau family near Auray Brittany in 1887 Rodin saw the ocean for the first time and is said to have exclaimed: ""It's a Monet!"" To Mirbeau's way of thinking Rodin and Monet had embarked on the same artistic adventure and were destined to be equally successful. In November 1886 he wrote to Rodin about the paintings that Monet was going to exhibit at Petit's gallery the following year: ""He works hard and in my opinion he has done great things: it will be a new facet of his talent; a formidable awe-inspiring Monet of whom we were unaware. Our friend Monet is a heroic man of courage and if anyone deserves to succeed alongside you it's him. . the dual exhibition was a great success with the public and critics. According to Mirbeau Monet and Rodin embodied ""most gloriously and most definitively the two arts of painting and sculpture"" Rodin Museum. Galerie G. Petit unknown

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