Sophia University have 16 of 72 plates from Voyage au Japon, execute pendant les annees 1823 a 1830, the French translation of a book by Philipp Franz von Siebold. He was responsible for introducing western medicine to Japan among (many) other things. I've previously posted about his Fauna Japonica series and will so again sometime.
There is little in the way of information about this publication on the internet and there seems to be some conflict about how many volumes were in the series. I think the original of this was in Dutch and the original plates retain those captions with added french words (in some). The series was published between 1837 and 1840.
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