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Paris: Chez Ruault. 1776. 1st edition, sm quarto. text in French, pp.206, (ii), complete with half-title, finely engraved frontispiece and 120 engraved plates of which plates 90 and 91 are on one plate, 6 plates folding, light offsetting, scattered light foxing, 'Roehamptonâ in ink on preliminary blank and another contemporary prev. owner's ink inscr on verso half-title 'Holbrook?, 12 January 1780', bookplate of Western Australian anthropologist (D'Arcy Ryan), loosely inserted folded manuscript map on tracing paper (possibly made by Ryan) showing a route from Ceylon to the Philippines, around Borneo to Timor and then onto Mauritius, hand made marbled e.p.s, and all edges marbled, professionally rebacked, original contemporary French binding of patterned calf sides, a little worn otherwise, very good condition First edition of Sonnerat's first voyage to New Guinea and the FIRST depiction of the Australian 'Kookaburra' drawn from a specimen collected…
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Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee, dans lequel on trouve la description des Lieux, des Observations physiques & morales, & des details relatifs a l'Histoire Naturelle dans le regne animal & le regen vegetal
by Sonnerat, M. (Pierre)
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