70 - Kanzler, Friedrich Gottlieb. Fermin’s Historical and Political Overview of the Current and Former Conditions of the Colony of Suriname in South America. Göttingen, Bossiegel, 1788. A copy with an autograph dedication of this important account of colonial Suriname

Kanzler, Friedrich Gottlieb. Fermin’s Historical and Political Overview of the Current and Former Conditions of the Colony of Suriname in South America. Göttingen, Bossiegel, 1788. A copy with an autograph dedication of this important account of colonial Suriname Kanzler, Friedrich Gottlieb. Fermin’s Historical and Political Overview of the Present and Past Conditions of the Colony of Suriname in South America. Göttingen, Bossiegel, 1788. Octavo (180 x 10° mm); [4], 6, [2], 159, [1] pages. Two folded diagrams in the text. Contemporary binding in hazelnut-colored calfskin, with a gilt fillet frame on the covers, a 5-rib spine, a red label for the title, gilt decorations on the panels, and red edges. German translation of the supplement to Fermin’s famous work on Suriname, originally published in 1769. An important 18th-century account of the history and political and social conditions of Suriname, then a Dutch colony, based largely on the direct experience of the author, a French physician and naturalist who resided there for an extended period. Autograph dedication on this important account of colonial Suriname