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Voyages dans l'Amerique du Sud. Contenant I. Voyage dans l'interieur des Guyanes (1876-1877) Exploration du Maroni et du Yary. II. De Cayenne aux Andes (1878-1879) Exploration de l'Oyapock, du Paou, de l'Ica et du Yapura. III. A Travers la Nouvelle-Grenade et le Venezuela (1880-1881) Exploration, en Compagnie de M. E. Le Janne, du Magdelena, du Guaviare et de l'Orenoque. IV. Excursion chez les Guaraounos (1881)
by Crevaux, J. [Crevaux, Docteur Jules]
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie 1883. Large 4to. French language. xvi, 636 pp. Full red publisher's cloth and morocco spine with elaborate gilt and black tribal and Native American decoration; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to joints and corners, and the minimal marks, otherwise all clean and gilt bright. Very minor spots throughout but generally internally clean. With 253 incredible engraved black & white illustrations, many of which are full page, four maps, and 6 facsimiles of Crevaux's journals. Jules Crevaux was a French army doctor who became a major explorer of the rivers and rainforests of South America, leading four expeditions, into French Guiana, into the basins of the Amazon, Madalena and Orinoco rivers; in April 1882, on his final expedition exploring the Pilcomayo River he was betrayed by his Indigenous guide and beaten to death by the T obas people. A wonderfully preserved, near fine feast for the eyes. 34 cms tall. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Near Fine. Leather Spine Decorative Cloth. 1884.
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- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Voyages dans l'Amerique du Sud. Contenant I. Voyage dans l'interieur des Guyanes (1876-1877) Exploration du Maroni et du Yary. II. De Cayenne aux Andes (1878-1879) Exploration de l'Oyapock, du Paou, de l'Ica et du Yapura. III. A Travers la Nouvelle-Grenade et le Venezuela (1880-1881) Exploration, en Compagnie de M. E. Le Janne, du Magdelena, du Guaviare et de l'Orenoque. IV. Excursion chez les Guaraounos (1881)
- Author
- Crevaux, J. [Crevaux, Docteur Jules]
- Format/Binding
- Leather Spine Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Libraire Hachette et Cie 1883
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- Large 4to.
- Keywords
- South America,Venezuela,Brazil,Colombia,Amazon,Anthropology,Guianas , ,French Guiana,Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; French Books;
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