Lot 175
  • 175

BROWN, CHARLES BARRINGTON, AND WILLIAM LIDSTONE

Estimate
200 - 300 GBP
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Description

  • Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and its Tributaries. London: Edward Stanford, 1878
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xiv, [ii], 520pp., half-title, folding map, 9 plates, original green cloth, slipcase

Provenance

John Bedford, armorial bookplate

Literature

Borba de Moraes p.130

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

The authors travelled for two years along the entire course of the Amazon River and its principal tributaries.