Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America during the Years 1799-1804. In Three Volumes.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., ca. 1880. 8vo. 18.5 cm, xxii,505; vi, 521; & vi, 442 pp., index, green cloth, gilt spine titles, light foxing, toning to endpapers, A Fine Set. Item #44201
”Sir John Lubbboch's Hundred Books”,translated and edited (with Preface dated 1851) by Thomasina Ross. A scarce edited version of Humbold's original edition of 1807 (Paris): the naturalist and geologist's narative of five-year expedition through Spanish America, accompanied by his designated botanist, Aime Bonpland. All aspects were covered -geological, botanical, anthropological, meterological. Of particular noted was the travels to find the sources of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers.
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