Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, à Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, etc. fait en 1790. Traduit de l'allemand, avec des notes critiques sur la physique, la politique et les arts.

2 vol., 8vo: xvi-408, [4]-446 pp. (some brown., occ. spotting).

Contemp. blond calf, gilt double fillet frame on the boards, gold-tooled flat spine, red leather title labels with a green "pastille" for the vol. number (rubbed, some scratches, joints partly split, bumped corners).

First edition of the translation by Charles Pougens, countersigned with the publisher's stamp authenticating the edition (the counterfeit ed., with the same publisher's name and date, has a different pagination: 242, 263 pp.). Epistolary account of a journey made in the company of the famous German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt: starting from Boppart, the author visits successively Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Liège, Leuven, Mechelen, Brussels, Lille, Antwerp, The Hague and Amsterdam. It should be noted that Forster stayed with the Arenbergs and gives interesting observations about the inhabitants of the Austrian Netherlands and Liège during the troubled period before and after the Brabant Revolution of 1789-1790. Vol. I contains a biography of the author (1754-1794), a German writer, naturalist, ethnologist and traveller, who was Cook's companion on his second journey.
Ref. De Theux 1146.
Prov. Hédon (stamp "E bibliotheca Hedon.").