Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l'histoire naturelle dans le regne animal & le regne végétal Par M. Sonnerat
xij, [4], 206, [2] pages, 120 leaves of plates (6 folded) illustrations 27 cm (4to)
Type:
Books
Engravings
Travel literature
Place:
Philippines
New Guinea
Date:
1776
Notes:
"De l'imprimerie de Demonville, imp. lib. rue S. Severin, 1776"--Colophon
"Enrichi de cent vingt figures en taille douce"
Head- and tailpieces (wood-engravings, some signed "L.P." or "S.P. Fournier"), initials, and side-notes
Includes index
Plates illustrated by Sonnerat and engraved by Therese Martinet, Avril, or C. Baquoy
Plates numbered "II", 56, and 86 through 89 are folded. Plate "90 et 91" are printed together on the same (quarto-sized) leaf
SCNHRB copy 39088016106825 has plate 84 misbound following plate 85
SCNHRB copy has stamp of a former owner on front free endpaper: Library of R. Harry, Jr. [possibly author Robert R. Harry?]. There is an illegible ink autograph of a former owner [S.K. Wheat?] on front free endpaper, and the upper right corner of the marbled front free endpaper has been removed, probably to excise a former owner marking
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased with a gift from Dr. Storrs L. Olson and the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has a contemporary gilt-tooled mottled leather binding, with raised bands and marbled edges and endpapers
