Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries . . . during the years 1849-1864.
Book Description
First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. lii, 518, [2, ads.] & xii, 542, [2, ads.]; port. frontis. of Spruce to vol. I, numerous illusts., 7 maps inc. 4 folding; very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly darkened on spines, a little bumped and marked. Presentation copies from the publisher, with blindstamps to that effect on each title-page, and a loosely inserted slip from the publisher requesting “a copy of the issue containing a notice of this work. The price of the book is 21/- net”.
Dealer Notes
Spruce (1817-1893) was an important botanist and traveller who in the mid-19th century mapped parts of the Amazon system, collecting some 7000 flowering plants, and detailing numerous Amazonian languages. In the course of his travels he met H. W. Bates and Alfred Wallace, assisting the latter when he succumbed to malaria. Spruce’s notes of these travels were collected and edited after his death by Wallace, and reveal the extensive additions to knowledge that Spruce made.
Author
Spruce, Richard; Alfred Russel Wallace, editor.
Date
1908
Binding
Original cloth
Publisher
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited
Condition
See description
Pages
lii, 518, [2, ads.] & xii, 542, [2, ads.]
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