Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 370

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(SOUTH AMERICA.) Spruce, Richard. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes. 7 maps, frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (many of them full-page). lii, 518, [2]; xii, 542 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; minimal dampstaining, map facing page II:310 detached but present. London, 1908
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Spruce spent 15 years in South America, from 1849 to 1864, mostly in Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. This volume was edited by his longtime associate Alfred Russel Wallace and issued posthumously. Borba de Moraes, pages II:830; Palau 321749.