A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. Alfred Russel Wallace. Published by Ward, Lock and Co., London, Edinburgh and New York, circa 1889. New Edition. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 363pp., with frontis-portrait; map; 10 black and white plates; Biographical Introduction, Preface; Preface to New Edition; Contents; List of Illustrations; Appendix on Amazonian Picture-Writings. Heavy green cloth boards with blindstamp to front, red label to spine with titles. Contents call for 14 illustrations in addition to map and frontispiece; this copy is missing plates 4 plates: P.14, P. 232, P, 297-298. Pages 13 and 14 are incised and replaced with bound in handwritten pages in a neat hand; a handwritten index is provided on rear blank pages and pastedown. Some weakening to binding; rubbing to boards a few pencil notes in margins; ink stamp to pastedown: Sold by H.M. Stationery Office.

Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (1823-1913), was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.