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[iii]-x,335,[1]pp. plus six plates, portrait, and folding map. Lacks the half title. Quarto. Later blue morocco, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled edges. Binding shelf worn and lightly scuffed. Occasional light foxing to text, some offsetting from plates. Very good. The first English edition of this classic work, a 19th-century travel account of Brazil. "Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied travelled through Brazil from 1815 to 1817, accompanied by the naturalists Georg Freyreiss and Friedrich Sellow. From Rio they journeyed to Cabo Frio, along the coast of Ilheus, and from there they sailed up the Jequitinhonha to the borders of Minas Geraes, finally reaching Bahia. From a scientific point of view this expedition was one of the most profitable of the nineteenth century. The enormous zoological collections which were assembled are today in the American Museum of Natural History of New York, acquired by them in 1870" - Borba de Moraes. This English translation covers only the first of two volumes of the original German edition, published in Frankfurt earlier the same year. Illustrations include six beautifully engraved plates. "The plates are principally illustrative of the habits and appearances of the Indian tribes he encountered" - Field. Also featured is a folding map, engraved and handcolored in outline, of "The East Coast of Brazil." This copy includes the engraved portrait of Prince Maximilian of Wied Neuwied, which is sometimes lacking. Prince Maximilian would later go on to travel in the United States and the upper Missouri River in 1832-34, accompanied by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer. Their travels were documented in Reise in das Innere Nord-America in den Jahren. (1839-1841), "the most important illustrated work of Western Americana, and the greatest colorplate book devoted to North American Indians" (Reese). This is the first copy we have handled, handsomely bound and splendidly illustrated, of this important travel account of Brazil. SABIN 47021. ABBEY 705. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.544-45. FIELD 1035. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 73 (ref). N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM62823
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