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FORSTER, Georg
"Geschichte der Reisen, die seit Cook an der Nordwest- und Nordost-Küste von Amerika ...." 3 volumes
"... and in the northernmost America itself have been undertaken by Meares, Dixon, Portlock, Coxe, Long and others".
In the Vossische Buchhandlung. Berlin. 1791. 25 x 22 cm.
Map, 9, (1), 130, 302 pages, 7 folding plates and a further map. / Map, 22, 314 pages and 13 folding plates. / Map, 18, 74, 380 pages and 7 folding plates. Half leather binding with red edges. From the English, with the addition of all other auxiliary sources, prepared by Georg Forster. With a preface by the translator Johann Reinhold Forster, in volume 2. Signs of wear commensurate with age.
/ Johann Reinhold Forster (* October 22, 1729 in Dirschau, Royal Prussia; † December 9, 1798 in Halle a.d. Saale) was a well-educated German natural scientist and explorer in the Age of Enlightenment, who also made significant contributions to ethnology. His official botanical author abbreviation is "J.R.Forst."
Provenance : Stamp "Stadtarchiv Lengefeld" / "G. von Salisch".
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