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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