KOSTER, Henry. Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 2 volumes, 8°, second edition, aquatint frontispiece, 7 plates and 2 folding maps (small hole to pp. 315/316 in vol. II with loss of one letter, occasional light offsetting), 20th-century library cloth, accession number to spine. [Abbey Travel 704; Sabin 38272: "highly esteemed in Brazil"] With W. Ruschenberger's Three Years in the Pacific; containing notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, &c. in 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 (2 vols., London, 1835) and 2 other works on Central and South America, one in 2 volumes. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)

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KOSTER, Henry. Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 2 volumes, 8°, second edition, aquatint frontispiece, 7 plates and 2 folding maps (small hole to pp. 315/316 in vol. II with loss of one letter, occasional light offsetting), 20th-century library cloth, accession number to spine. [Abbey Travel 704; Sabin 38272: "highly esteemed in Brazil"] With W. Ruschenberger's Three Years in the Pacific; containing notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, &c. in 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 (2 vols., London, 1835) and 2 other works on Central and South America, one in 2 volumes. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)

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Sabin calls for 9 preliminary pages in Koster's Travels; this copy has only 4 preliminaries but appears complete.

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