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A Paris Chez Delaunay ..., 1818. 2 vols. lx + [iii] + 376pp. + t.p. + 512pp. + [ii]. 2 folding maps, 8 hand cold. aquatint plates. Some light sporadic browning, rebound in modern half morocco with gilt lettering to sl. faded spines, t.e.g. ¶ Translated from the English. Henry Koster born in Portugal at the end of the C18th. After contracting Tuberculosis he travelled to Brasil in 1809 and settled in Pernambuco at a sugar ‘engenho’ later acquiring land in Itamaracá and a ‘sitio’ in Gamboa. He lived in the Northeast of Brazil until his death in 1820. Abbet Travel 704; Sabin 38273; Moraes vol. 1. pp.371 ‘... Koster had no intention of writing a book about Brazil, but urged by friends and advised by Southey who he met and befriended in Portugal in 1801 and whose library he utilized, he finally published the above work which was very well received by critics at the time. A second edition was issued in the following year and immediately thereafter it was translated into German and French. Today it is a classic work on the North of Brazil ... in the appendix he transcribed two monographs, rare today, which appeared in Rio in 1810 written by Arruda Camara ...’

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