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FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729–1798). Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris Australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto… Berlin: Ex Officina Academica, 1844. 8vo. Errata at rear. Modern calf gilt, raised bands, red leather spine labels gilt, bound by Vernon Wiering with ticket (renewed endpapers, spotting to title, some marginal browning). FIRST EDITION of Forester’s study of the Australasian fauna encountered on Cook’s second voyage. Not published until more than sixty years after the voyage, it records 305 animal species being “the most important zoological work with full results” (Rookmaaker, p. 48). Ferguson 3822; Rookmaaker, Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650–1790 (1989).