Wallace, Alfred Russel

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Palm Trees of the Amazon and their Uses. London: John van Voorst, 1853
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (195 x 120mm.), viii, 130pp., map, 47 plates, original olive green blindstamped cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Literature

Borba de Moraes p.933; Nissen BBI 2097

Catalogue Note

RARE. Wallace's first book, of which only two hundred and fifty copies were printed. Although Wallace lost most of his drawings and materials when his ship sank on the homeward voyage in August 1852, his notes and drawings of Amazonian palm trees were rescued.