Taschenbuch zur Verbreitung geographischer Kenntnisse. Eine Übersicht des Neuesten und Wissenswürdigsten im Gebiete der gesammten Länder- und Völkerkunde. [Pocket Book to Foster Geographical Knowledge] [contents:] I. Streifzüge durch die Bretagne und Normandie. [Roaming Through ..] II. Brasiliens Gold und Diamanten. III. Die Insel Cuba. IV. Zur Kenntnifs des russischen Volkslebens. [Life in Russia] V. Bemerkungen über Manila, die Hauptstadt der Philippinen. [Remarks about Manila, Capital of the Philippines]

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hardbound, 293 pp., with 4 steel plates and 1 lithograph. [List available upon request] EXTREMELY RARE. 13th annual edition, with a German translation of Bennet’s trip to Manila: from 10. 6. to 20.9. 1830. Chapter V [5]: Bemerkungen über Manila die Hauptstadt der Philippinen-Insel Luçon, von George Bennet, Nouvelles Annales des Voyages etc. 1833 August- und September Heft , S. 234 pp. British born Bennett, a medical doctor and naturalist, eventually settled in Australia in 1834. His most well-known writing being “Wanderings in New South Wales, London 1834. Apparently, the Manila visit occurred on one of his early return trips from Australia enroute to London, entering through the San Bernadino Strait.. One of his Manila articles appeared in The London Medical Gazette [8, 1831, pp522-26]:”On the Edpidemic Catarrh or Influenza, Which Prevailed iat Manila (Island of Luconia) During the Month of September 1830”.