Bates (Henry Walter . The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray 1863, 9 wood-engraved plates, including frontispieces, folding map (two folds neatly restrengthened to verso), wood-engraved illustrations to text, some spotting to preliminary leaves, and occasionally to margins, late 19th century/early 20th century green half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (textblock measures 19 x 12 cm) Borba de Moraes I p. 77; Sabin 3932a. A 'major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia' (ODNB). Bates arrived in the Amazon with Wallace in 1848 and remained for eleven years, a longer period than any of his European predecessors, during which time he formed an enormous collection of about 14,000 insects. He wrote his account at the suggestion of Charles Darwin, who recommended him to his own publisher, John Murray The book was an immediate success and is now considered a classic of travel and natural history writing
Bates (Henry Walter . The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray 1863, 9 wood-engraved plates, including frontispieces, folding map (two folds neatly restrengthened to verso), wood-engraved illustrations to text, some spotting to preliminary leaves, and occasionally to margins, late 19th century/early 20th century green half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (textblock measures 19 x 12 cm) Borba de Moraes I p. 77; Sabin 3932a. A 'major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia' (ODNB). Bates arrived in the Amazon with Wallace in 1848 and remained for eleven years, a longer period than any of his European predecessors, during which time he formed an enormous collection of about 14,000 insects. He wrote his account at the suggestion of Charles Darwin, who recommended him to his own publisher, John Murray The book was an immediate success and is now considered a classic of travel and natural history writing
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