Hombron
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Jacques bernard hombron () was a french naval surgeon and naturalist (mainly ornithologist)hombron served on the french voyage of discovery of dumont d'urville between and to map the perimeter of antarctica with two ships, the astrolabe and the zéléeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicontains the 4 rare chromolithographs and 21 b/w full-page engravings, protected by tissue papertogether with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsthis volume includes descriptions of the travels of la pérouse, bougainville, the murder of captain cook, the pelew islands, the discovery of new zealand, the travels of bontekoe, borneo, algeria, australia and javafour raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe coloured chromolithographs are not present in all editions and are only included in the deluxe edition! pages slightly browned and spotted commensurate with age, otherwise in excellent conditionrare and sought-after and in fine conditionmorocco-leather bindingvolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoveriescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablegilt head and gilt edges
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