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Henry Koster (d.1820)
Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. 4° (27 x 21cm.), 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plans (occasional light offsetting onto text leaves, some marginal browning and waterstaining), contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered with old spine partly relaid). Provenance: Jose Cochrane de Alencar, Portuguese ambassador in London before World War II,inscription, dated 1937.
FIRST EDITION, 'the most sought after ... a classic work on the North of Brazil' (Borba de Morares). Henry Koster, the son of a sugar merchant from Oporto, emigrated to Brazil in 1809, where he settled in Pernambuco, until his death in 1820. This work was published during one of several visits the author made to England. Abbey Travel 704.
Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. 4° (27 x 21cm.), 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plans (occasional light offsetting onto text leaves, some marginal browning and waterstaining), contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered with old spine partly relaid). Provenance: Jose Cochrane de Alencar, Portuguese ambassador in London before World War II,inscription, dated 1937.
FIRST EDITION, 'the most sought after ... a classic work on the North of Brazil' (Borba de Morares). Henry Koster, the son of a sugar merchant from Oporto, emigrated to Brazil in 1809, where he settled in Pernambuco, until his death in 1820. This work was published during one of several visits the author made to England. Abbey Travel 704.
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