FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798.
Descriptiones animalium, quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto ... curante Henrico Lichtenstein. Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1844.
Descriptiones animalium, quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto ... curante Henrico Lichtenstein. Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1844.
8vo (213 x 125 mm), Errata at end. Modern calf gilt. Light spotting and stains, ink transfer on final leaf.
FIRST EDITION of the description by naturalist Forster of the creatures encountered on Cook's second voyage. Not published until more than sixty years after the voyage, it records 305 animal species. Ferguson 3822.
WITH: Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy. London: G. Robinson, 1778. 4to (267 x 215 mm). Folding table. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label, pencil marginalia, light spotting. Lacks the folding map, found only in some copies.
FIRST EDITION Rosove, 140.A1; Spence, 467.
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Descriptiones animalium, quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto ... curante Henrico Lichtenstein. Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1844.
Descriptiones animalium, quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto ... curante Henrico Lichtenstein. Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1844.
8vo (213 x 125 mm), Errata at end. Modern calf gilt. Light spotting and stains, ink transfer on final leaf.
FIRST EDITION of the description by naturalist Forster of the creatures encountered on Cook's second voyage. Not published until more than sixty years after the voyage, it records 305 animal species. Ferguson 3822.
WITH: Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy. London: G. Robinson, 1778. 4to (267 x 215 mm). Folding table. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label, pencil marginalia, light spotting. Lacks the folding map, found only in some copies.
FIRST EDITION Rosove, 140.A1; Spence, 467.
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