BOLINGBROKE, Henry.

Reise nach dem Demerary nebst einer Beschreibung der Niederlassungen daselbst so wie jener am Essequebo, Berbice und andern benachbarten Flüssen von Guyana.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Rein, 1812. 8vo (190 x 120 mm), pp. viii, 216, with a folding map; old boards. First edition in German. The English original appeared in 1807. The author ‘sailed for Demerara, in British Guiana, on 28 November 1798, returned to England on 21 October 1805, but set out for Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, on 3 March 1807 to become deputy vendue master, with charge of public sales and auctions, for six years. He returned to Plymouth on 25 June 1813 . . . . He published A voyage to the Demerary (1807), revised and edited by William Taylor (1765–1836), of Norwich. The book went to two editions and contained a statistical account of the settlements on the Demerara and other rivers of Guiana, a little-known area’ (Oxford DNB).Sabin 6183. See Cundall 1511, Ragatz p. 220 and Sánchez 101 for the English edition. NUC locates two copies (Harvard, John Carter Brown). Not found in COPAC.

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