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HENRY KOSTER (d.1820)
Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. 4° (268 x 211mm.). 2 engraved plans and 8 handcoloured aquatints. (Gutter mainly lightly waterstained throughout affecting plates, occasional spotting and light offsetting.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked with old spine partly relaid and recornered). Provenance: Jose Cochrane de Alencar, Portuguese Ambassador in London before World War II (inscription, dated 1937) -- E. F. Rickmann (inscription, dated June 1886).
FIRST EDITION, "... the most sought after ... a classic work on the North of Brazil" (Borba de Moraes). 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; Sabin 38272.
Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. 4° (268 x 211mm.). 2 engraved plans and 8 handcoloured aquatints. (Gutter mainly lightly waterstained throughout affecting plates, occasional spotting and light offsetting.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked with old spine partly relaid and recornered). Provenance: Jose Cochrane de Alencar, Portuguese Ambassador in London before World War II (inscription, dated 1937) -- E. F. Rickmann (inscription, dated June 1886).
FIRST EDITION, "... the most sought after ... a classic work on the North of Brazil" (Borba de Moraes). 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; Sabin 38272.
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