HENRY KOSTER - 1793-1820 Voyage dans la partie septentrionale du Brésil, depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815 KOSTER, Henry.- Voyage dans la partie septentrionale du Brésil, depuis 1809 jusqu'en 1815, comprenant les provinces de Pernambuco (Fernambouc), Seara, Paraïba, Maragnan, etc.; / traduits de l'anglais par M. A. Jay.- A Paris: chez Delaunay, 1818.- 2 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E. The first French translation of this appreciated travel book, whose author (circa 1793-1820), also known as Henrique da Costa, son of an English sugar merchant, of Liverpool, was born in Oporto. Very young, Koster traveled to Brazil, where he lived most of his life, engaging in the cultivation and export of coffee. In the preface of his work we can read: «...la langue portugaise m’est plus familière que celle de mon pays... les avis et la grande bibliothèque de M. Southey m’ont été d’un grand secours». The agenda of each one of the volumes is as follows: I-[4], xilx (xlix), [3], 376 p.: 2 leaflets maps, 6. coloured aquatints; II-[4], 512, [2] p.: 2-coloured aquatints. Copy trimmed but complete and clean, containing the port of Pernambuco plan, the map of the captaincy and the eight hand coloured aquatints, according to the index, although two displaced. Bindings of the time, with black Morocco spines. Sabin, 38273. Borba de Moraes (Brazilian), I, p. 438 (the copies with coloured plates are rare).