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Sale 2708 - Lot 218

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(BRAZIL.) Hermann Burmeister. Reise nach Brasilien durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas Geraes, with the plate volume, Landschaftliche Bilder Brasiliens und Portraits einiger Urvölker. Text volume: one folding hand-colored map. vii, [1], 608 pages. 8vo, contemporary plain paper-covered boards with manuscript spine label, moderate wear; intermittent foxing, tasteful repairs to map at folds; early German bookseller's tag on front pastedown, early owner's signature on front free endpaper.

Plate volume: 11 tinted lithographs, plus the 5 text leaves in facsimile only. Oblong folio, 11½ x 16¼ inches, modern ½ morocco over marbled boards in period style, minor wear; intermittent foxing. Berlin, 1853
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A German scientist describes his travels in Brazil from 1850 to 1852. The map traces his route deep into the interior. The plate volume consists mostly of large lithograph views of river and wilderness scenes, with a few of settlements, and one with four indigenous bust portraits. "The plates were drawn to illustrate the journey. This volume is much more difficult to find than the text itself"--Borba de Moraes, pages I:136. Sabin 9346, 9348.

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