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BENOIT, Pierre Jacques (1782-1854). Voyage à Surinam description des possessions Néerlandaises dans la Guyane. Brussels: Société des Beaux-Arts, 1839.
2° (484 x 340mm). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette. Lithographed additional title and 100 subjects on 49 full-page lithographed plates, all on india paper mounted, by P.Lauters and Madou after Benoit, 14 on tinted paper. (Some spotting, marginal in the main but occasionally heavy.) Publisher's half cloth (extremities worn).
FIRST EDITION. The lively plates include topographical views, botanical, ethnographical and zoological subjects and scenes from the life of the native indians, the african-americans and the white colonists. A second edition was published in 1859. Sabin 4737.
2° (484 x 340mm). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette. Lithographed additional title and 100 subjects on 49 full-page lithographed plates, all on india paper mounted, by P.Lauters and Madou after Benoit, 14 on tinted paper. (Some spotting, marginal in the main but occasionally heavy.) Publisher's half cloth (extremities worn).
FIRST EDITION. The lively plates include topographical views, botanical, ethnographical and zoological subjects and scenes from the life of the native indians, the african-americans and the white colonists. A second edition was published in 1859. Sabin 4737.