Author: Benoit, P.J.
Title: Voyage à Surinam. Description des possessions Néerlandaises dans La Guyana. [2nd edition in 4to]
Description: Bruxelles, Bruylant Christophe et Cie, 1858. 69,[6] pp. With lithogr. title plate, vign. & 49 b./w. lithographed tipped in plates on India paper by Madou & Lauters after P.J. Benoit. Modern vellum. Sm. folio. - Foxed (backside of the plates only, not affecting the depictions), covers sl. warped. * This 4to from 1858 edition is often wrongly attributed to be the very rare first edition in folio from 1839. The differences with the first edition are the shorter sized margins, no editors introduction and plates printed on tipped in India paper in black and white. Very interesting publication on 19th century colonial Suriname with various depictions of plantations, social classes, scenery, Paramaribo etc. See: Sabin 4737.

Keywords: Ethnography Latin America Suriname Etnografie Latijns-Amerika ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / VI