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[Canary Islands] 2 volumes: 1/ VERNEAU (Docteur R.). Five ye…
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[Canary Islands] 2 volumes: 1/ VERNEAU (Docteur R.). Five ye…
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Lot no. 35
[Canary Islands] 2 volumes:
1/ VERNEAU (Docteur R.). Five years' stay in the Canary Islands. Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1891. One volume in-8, half contemporary green chagrin, all edges gilt. XVI, 412 pp. Rubbing.
4 plates hors-texte, 42 engravings in-texte and 1 folding map. Account of two scientific missions between 1876 and 1887 by the anthropologist René Verneau (1852-1938).
2/ BERTHELOT (Sabin). Antiquités canariennes ou Annotations sur l'origine des peuples qui occupèrent les îles Fortunées, depuis les premiers temps jusqu'à l'époque de leur conquête. Paris, Plon et Cie, 1879. One large volume in-8, full modern cloth, leather title-piece, cons. cover (Ateliers Laurenchet). (2) ff, 251 pp, (1) f.
20 plates hors-texte. First edition of the last work devoted to the Canaries by the zoologist and ethnographer Sabin Berthelot (1794-1880), whose first visit to the islands dates back to 1820.
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