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London : Unit Library, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxiv, 259 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm. Subjects; Taxidermy. Zoology � Guyana.

London : Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Oxford English memoirs and travels. Physical description: xxvi, 230p., [12]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Natural history -- Guyana.

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London : Printed for B. Fellowes, 1828. Second Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked cloth over marbled boards. Shadow-staining to prelims; marginal foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright and strong. Physical description; vii, [1], 341 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Waterton, Charles 1782-1865 Journeys. Zoology South America. Zoology Guyana. Taxidermy Guyana. Ciencias naturales Am�rica. Indios de Am�rica. Libros de viajes Am�rica Obras anteriores a 1900. South America Description and travel. United States Description and travel. Quebec (Province) Description and travel. Guyana Description and travel. Pernambuco, Brazil (State) Description and travel. Antilles, Lesser Description and travel. West Indies Description and travel.

London: Mawman, 1825. 4to. (10 1/2 x 8 inches). First edition. a2 b-24. [il-vii [11-326 [2]. 336 pp. Illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece and two in-text woodcut figures on pp.226 and 227. Frontispiece, Title, Preface, Wanderings in South America First Journey, Second Journey, Third Journey, Fourth Journey, On Preserving Birds for Cabinets of Natural History. Black blind-tooled morocco with gilt-ruling and elaborately decorated spine in five compartments with raised bands and burgundy lettering-pieces in second and fourth compartments reading with blue marbled endpapers and edges First edition of a riveting early account of travels in South America and the "Northwest Passage" by the noted English naturalist and eccentric Charles Waterton, who described a Bigfoot-like cryptid called the "Nondescript Man," an engraved portrait of whom is the frontispiece. English explorer, naturalist, and taxidermist Charles Waterton was born in West Yorkshire and educated at Stonyhurst College in -… Read More