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973 - BENOIT, Pierre-Jacques *Voyage à Surinam*. Description of the Dutch Possessions in Guyana [...]. Brussels: Société des Beaux-Arts, Dewasme and Laurent, 1839. Folio; 47 (of 50) plates. (plates 34, 35, and 36 missing; lower part of plate 40 cut out; some marginal spotting). Contemporary half shagreen, percaline boards, gilt-ornamented flat spine (boards slightly faded, corners slightly bumped). First edition of the work by the Belgian P.-J. Benoit (1782–1854), who traveled to Suriname in 1830. There, he observed daily life and opposed the abolition of slavery. The illustrations, bound at the end, include 1 frontispiece and 46 fine lithographs “sur chine appliqué” by Madou and Lauters, depicting scenes from the daily lives of enslaved people, as well as topographical views, the lives of Native Americans and Surinamese, the fauna and flora, ceremonies, houses, costumes, etc., and a slave market. Ref. Walch 106. - Van der Marck 137. - Chadenat 14 (“one of the most beautiful books on Dutch Guiana”). - Sabin 4737. - Muller, America, 1460.
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BENOIT, Pierre-Jacques *Voyage à Surinam*. Description of the Dutch Possessions in Guyana [...]. Brussels: Société des Beaux-Arts, Dewasme and Laurent, 1839. Folio; 47 (of 50) plates. (plates 34, 35, and 36 missing; lower part of plate 40 cut out; some marginal spotting). Contemporary half shagreen, percaline boards, gilt-ornamented flat spine (boards slightly faded, corners slightly bumped). First edition of the work by the Belgian P.-J. Benoit (1782–1854), who traveled to Suriname in 1830. There, he observed daily life and opposed the abolition of slavery. The illustrations, bound at the end, include 1 frontispiece and 46 fine lithographs “sur chine appliqué” by Madou and Lauters, depicting scenes from the daily lives of enslaved people, as well as topographical views, the lives of Native Americans and Surinamese, the fauna and flora, ceremonies, houses, costumes, etc., and a slave market. Ref. Walch 106. - Van der Marck 137. - Chadenat 14 (“one of the most beautiful books on Dutch Guiana”). - Sabin 4737. - Muller, America, 1460.
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