- 49
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. Reeve and Co., 1853
- Paper
8vo, first edition, first issue, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 8 outline lithographed plates, map, folding table, 2+16pp. adverts at end, original olive cloth decorated in blind, lower joint of spine splitting, some spotting to tinted plate
Literature
Borba de Moraes p.933
Catalogue Note
This lot is being sold by the Charles Darwin Trust to fund the gift of Quentin Keynes’ remaining collection of important Darwin and Wallace books and manuscripts to the Linnean Society, for use in their educational programmes.