[Travel, Surinam] BENOIT, P.J., Voyage a Surinam, Description des possessions Néerlandaises dans la Guyane.

Cent Dessins pris sur nature par l ‘auteur. Lithographiés par Madou et Lauters. Bruxelles, Société des Beaux-Arts (De Wasme et Laurent), 1839.

Atlas dimensions, booklock 48 x 34 cm. (4), 76 pp. and 47 leaves with 99 + 1 (title print) beautifully executed lithograph. prints on papier-de-chine, mounted on book leaf, numbered and signed on the stone by P. Lauters and Madou after drawings by the author. Printed title with vignette in woodengraving. Half-vellum binding with corners, marbled sides. Water stains (as commonly encountered), mostly on book paper; 2 text leaves missing (p.41-44), endpaper with traces of folding. With complete set of very fine, sometimes Bresding-like litho prints with lively images of jungle life. *(zie plaat XXIX, en als Bresdin: XXXIII, en XLVII, zeer fraai)