Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Historia geral do Brazil.
Published / Created:
[Rio de Janeiro : E. e H. Laemmert, 1854-57]
Physical Description:
[28] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
F2524 .V37 1854+ Oversize

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
A separate large paper issue of all the plates that appeared in Varnhagen's Historia geral do Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: E. e H. Laemmert, 1854-57.

Issued in illustrated wrappers with title: Historia geral do Brazil.

Engravings by A.F. Lemaitre and M. Rapine, after illustrations by F.A. de Varnhagen, K.F.P. von Martius, and J.B. Debret.

Plates printed by F. Lamoureux, Paris.

"A propriedade da presente ediçao é gratuitamente cedida pelo autor aos snrs. E. & H. Laemmert, que correm com os gastos materiaes da impresao."--P. [4] of wrappers.

BAC: British Art Center copy has colored plates.
Subject Terms:
Brazil -- History -- To 1822. | Indians of South America -- Brazil.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1854-1857. | Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1854-1857.
Contributors:
Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de, Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816–1878, ill. | Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794–1868, ill. | Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768–1848, ill. | Lemaitre, Augustin François, 1797–1870, engraver. | Rapine, Maximilien, 1840–1905, engraver. | E. & H. Laemmert, publisher.