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 zéléegilt head and gilt edgesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefour raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentscontains the 4 rare chromolithographs and 21 b/w full-page engravings, protected by tissue papermorocco-leather bindingvolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoveriesthis 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 javatogether with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablerare and sought-after and in fine conditionthe 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 condition
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