[Zoology] Forster, J.R. Descriptiones animalium

quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto. Curante Henrico Lichtenstein, Berlin, Officina Academia, 1844, XIII,(1 blank),(1 errata),(1 blank),424 p., w. some tables in the text, 20th cent. hcl. w. the orig. wr. bound with, large 8vo. Wr. w. a few minor defects/ imperfections, a very good, untrimmed and partly unopened copy. Ferguson 3822; Rookmaaker, Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650–1790 (1989); Nissen, ZBI 1413. First edition of Forester’s study of the Australasian fauna encountered on Cook’s second voyage, published more than sixty years after the voyage, edited by Heinrich Lichtenstein. It records the exact location of 305 animal species being "the most important zoological work with full results" (Rookmaaker, p. 48). Added: 1 other on Sparrman's ethnographical objects collected from James Cook's 2nd voyage (Söderstrom, 1939).

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