THE LAND OF THE AMAZONS.

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392 pp. First British edition after second French; dark, olive-green cloth; gilt decorated upper cover; gilt stamped spine; endpapers; gilt top edge, other edges untrimmed; title page in red and black ink; illustrated with black and white photographs, one fold-out panorama (Manaus) map, charts. Binding tight; cloth stained, corners bumped, soiled; text near fine; back of fold-out map soiled; no dust jacket. Translated from the French by George Humphrey. See additional images provided. Quoting Borba 609: "Published as propaganda." Quoting from the text, p. 79, "The flora of the Amazons? Does this not resemble a redundance of words? Are not all the marvels of vegetation exhausted, as it were, in that immense hot-house of the valley of the Amazon? Is there a country in the world that can rival this Brazilian region in the riches, grandeur, brilliancy, and utility of its vegetable products? In this valley there is not a plain in the interior, not a hill, not a bank of a river, rivulet, lake, or igarap?, where we do not find the splendour and the superabundance of an extraordinary vegetation. On all sides are exhaled the most varied perfumes. Everywhere is to be found the most highly-esteemed timber for civil and shipbuilding purposes, together with the most beautiful and precious specimens of woods used in carpentry and cabinet-making. Medicinal plants rival in value the kinds of woods used in dyeing and those which produce essences and gums. Trees bearing luscious fruits rise by the side of others whose sap transforms itself into india-rubber, or whose seeds become vegetable ivory. Everywhere there is a profusion of branches, verdure, flowers, fruits, seeds, and vital sap." Size: 23 x 16 cm. 0.0. N° de ref. del artículo 3495

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