It was Robert Southey who suggested that Koster write this now classic account of travels in the north of Brazil. This copy, showing slight offsetting and in rebacked contemporary tree calf, was sold at £760 to Shapero at Dominic Winter's auction on March 7 & 8, but in last December’s travel sale at Sotheby’s, another copy – again with some offsetting to the text and bound in contemporary tree calf gilt, repaired at the upper joint – reached £2200.
Koster's Travels in Brazil
UK: ONE of eight coloured aquatints, plus map and plan, from an 1816 first edition of Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster, who first went to Brazil in 1809, hoping that a change of climate might alleviate his TB, and eventually settled to the life of a sugar planter at Jaguaribe, near Recife in Pernambuco, where he died in 1820.
