BOWDICH, T.E.
Excursions dans les Isles de Madère et de Porto-Santo, faites dans l'automne de 1823, pendant son troisième Voyage en Afrique.
Ouvrage traduite de l'Anglais et accompagné de notes de M. le Baron Cuvier et de M. le Baron de Humboldt. Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1826. 2 volumes (text & atlas). 8vo. & 4to. pp. (4), 447, (1), with 22 lithographed plates (of which 3 double-page and 4 handcoloured). Recent quarter red morocco, gilt spines.

Nissen ZBI, 520. Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791-1824) was a famous African traveller. He became very well aquainted with Cuvier and Von Humboldt. "Proceeding to Madeira, where they were detained for some months, he wrote a geological description of the island of Porto Santo, the trigonometrical measurements of the peaks, a flora, &c., which was published in 1825, after his death" (D.N.B. II, p. 950). The orginal English edition appeared in 1825. Most of the plates depict natural history matter; 8 show fishes and 3 shells.
 

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