SPRUCE,RICHARD

HEPATISAE OF THE AMAZON AND THE ANDES OF PERU AND CUADOR

1984, 588 pp., plates e103

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Book number: 232316

Catalogue: Botany

SPRUCE, Richard & WALLACE, Alfred Russel (editor)

Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and Its Tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupes, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; As Also to the Cataracts of the Orinoco, Along the Eastern Side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the Shores of the Pacific, During the Years 1849-1864

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound by Bayntun [Riviere] in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on the spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of Hudson, 7 maps, of which 4 are folding, and 71 illustrations. Spruce, one of the great Victorian English explorers and the first professional botanist to explore South America, spent over 15 years in the Amazon basin resulting in this title, one of the most important books on Amazon natural history. Includes a chapter on indigenous narcotics and stimulants. Fine, lovely set .

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Book number: 021937

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: Botany, Fine Bindings, Natural History, Peru, Ecuador, Amazon, South America Fine Bindings Botany Natural History South America

SPRUCE, Richard & WALLACE, Alfred Russel (ed)

Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, Volume I

London, Macmillian , 1908. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth First edition. Volume I only. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine. End papers foxed & browned, with clipping from catalogue glued to front pastedown; some faint underlining in red pencil in text; pale speckles on cloth; spine lightly bumped at head and foot, & worn on joints. Frontispiece well-preserved with original tissue guard in place. All illustrations and maps are present & clean. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_17905_jpg.jpg.

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Book number: BOOKS184867I