[CLAVAREAU, Auguste] L’Hivernage des Hollandais a la Nouvelle-Zemble [1839]

L’Hivernage des Hollandais a la Nouvelle-Zemble

L’Hivernage des Hollandais, a French translation of Tollens’ poem about the winter on Novaya Zemlya, by Willem Barentsz.

Maestricht: F. Bury-Lefebvre / Paris: Louis Janet, 1839. 3rd ed.
4to., 73, [iii] pp. Original boards.
Illustrated with a lithographed portrait of Clavareau and 8 lithographed plates (with tissue guard). The plates by M. Mourot.

Mourot, Jean François Michel – active 1822-1847, was born in Metz (France), active as painter, draughtsman and lithographer, in the Netherlands.
Clavareau, Antoine Joseph Théodore Auguste – Luxemburg 1787-1864 Maastricht. Dutch translator and literary critic.
Tollens, Henricus Franciscus Caroluszoon (Hendrik) – Rotterdam 1780-1856 Rijswijk. Dutch poet and playwright.

Fair, the spine damaged, board edges a little worn. Frontispiece and title foxed. A collection stamp on a few of the pages, in the top margin corner. Page 37 partially loose.