Author: WATERTON, Charles.
Title: Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. 2nd edition.
Description: London, B. Fellowes, 1828. Later half calf. With engraved frontispiece depicting 'a nondescript'. VII,341 pp. First published in London in 1825. - Charles Waterton (1782-1865) travelled to British Guiana, where the family owned plantations in 1804. In the years 1805-1812 he managed the family plantations and explored the morasses and mangrove woods of the coastal strip (Demerara). He wrote a vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, Demerera, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. He was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of the West Indies. A delightful, almost apological book, flavoured with classical allusions and quotations of Don Quixote (Howgego II, p.629). - (Some foxing). Sabin 102094; Hill 1833; Ragatz p.235.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands South America
Title: Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. 2nd edition.
Description: London, B. Fellowes, 1828. Later half calf. With engraved frontispiece depicting 'a nondescript'. VII,341 pp. First published in London in 1825. - Charles Waterton (1782-1865) travelled to British Guiana, where the family owned plantations in 1804. In the years 1805-1812 he managed the family plantations and explored the morasses and mangrove woods of the coastal strip (Demerara). He wrote a vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, Demerera, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. He was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of the West Indies. A delightful, almost apological book, flavoured with classical allusions and quotations of Don Quixote (Howgego II, p.629). - (Some foxing). Sabin 102094; Hill 1833; Ragatz p.235.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands South America
Price: EUR 302.50 = appr. US$ 328.77 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 8920
- Book number: 8920