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ROBIN, Claude C. (b. 1750). Voyages dans l'intérieur de la Louisiane, de la Floride Occidentale, and dans les Isles de la Martinique et de Saint-Domingue pendant les années 1802 [à] 1806. Paris: F. Buisson, 1806-07.
3 volumes, 8° (192 x 110mm.), engraved portrait of the author by Tassaert after Trexel, large folding engraved map after J.B. Poirson, hand-coloured in outline (top inner corners of quire M in vol. II repaired with very slight loss of text, slightly browned throughout), late 19th-century calf-backed cloth (spines a trifle worn, spine of vol. II loose). Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie (1934 bequest to:) The Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'Robin witnessed at New Orleans and at Nachitoches, the transfer of Louisiana to the United States; he gives a most ample description of Louisiana's Western interior and of Spanish Texas' (Howes). An important appendix at the end of the third volume is devoted to the Flora of Louisiana. Brunet IV, 1336 (note); Howes R362; Sabin 72039; Stafleu & Cowan 9279. (3)
3 volumes, 8° (192 x 110mm.), engraved portrait of the author by Tassaert after Trexel, large folding engraved map after J.B. Poirson, hand-coloured in outline (top inner corners of quire M in vol. II repaired with very slight loss of text, slightly browned throughout), late 19th-century calf-backed cloth (spines a trifle worn, spine of vol. II loose). Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie (1934 bequest to:) The Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'Robin witnessed at New Orleans and at Nachitoches, the transfer of Louisiana to the United States; he gives a most ample description of Louisiana's Western interior and of Spanish Texas' (Howes). An important appendix at the end of the third volume is devoted to the Flora of Louisiana. Brunet IV, 1336 (note); Howes R362; Sabin 72039; Stafleu & Cowan 9279. (3)
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