1794, 4 vols.
8vo. - This work relates principally to Japan; and it may justly be
remarked, that few parts of the world have met with sucn admirable
describers as Japan has done, in Koempfer and Thunberg. Certainly the
natural history of no part, so rich in this respect, has been so fully and
scientifically investigated. A French translation of this work was
published in Paris in 1796, in 2 vols. 4to. enriched by the notes of
Langles and La Marck.
760. Golownin's Narrative of his Captivity in Japan, 1811-13. 2 vols.
8vo. - Japan is a country so little accessible, that every work on it is
acceptable. This work does not add very much to what Koempfer and Thunberg
have told, but perhaps quite as much as the author, under his
circumstances, could collect or observe. The same remarks apply to his
Recollections of Japan. 1 vol. 8vo.
The history of the missions in the East Indies, Japan, and China, which
were published in the Italian, Spanish, German, and French languages,
towards the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth
century, is interspersed with some curious and valuable information
regarding these countries; the titles and character of the principal of
these may be found in the Bibliotheque, vol. 5. p. 264, 272, &c.
761. Voyage to China and the East Indies, by Rel. Osbeck; with a Voyage to
Surat, by Torreens; and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry, by Ekelberg.
Translated from the German by J.R. Forster.
