- Lot 290

[SOUTH AMERICA] Henri COUDREAU - Journey to Xingú: May 30, 1896 - October 26, 1896. - The State of Para (United States of Brazil). - Album of the main avenues, squares, monuments, ports, statues of the State of Pará. Paris, A. Lahure, 1897. 3 works bound in 1 volume 278 x 220 mm, red half-calvin with corners (amateur binding at the beginning of the XXth c., percaline of the upper spine cracked on 3 cm, paper of the boards worn). 1/ [4], ii, 230, [2] pp. 68 illustrations in the text from the photographs of Mrs. O. Coudreau, 1 large folding map of the course of the Xingú by O. Coudreau. Added and bound in the copy 1 large handwritten folding map of the Upper Xingú as well as qqs. handwritten flyers "State indicating the properties seen in the Upper Xingú" (name of the owner, name of the place, name of the farmer, number of workers, number of slaves, production in 1900, observations) (tears). 2/ [4], 78 pp. 3/ [1], [23], [1] ff. Title, 23 plates of views, 1 folding plate of Bellem-do-Pará. Working copy. ATTACHED: - Louis GARAUD - Three years in Martinique. Illustrations outside the text by Notor. Paris, Librairie d'Éducation Nationale, "Collection Picard, Bibliothèque Coloniale de Voyages", n.d. 280 x 185 mm, 286, [2] pp. frontispiece, title vignette, 21 full-page illustrations including a map of Fort-de-France. Publisher's red percale (first booklet partially disjointed, some soiling or handling marks). TOGETHER 2 VOLUMES.