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

by Henry Walter Bates

$4,800 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: John Murray, 1863. First edition of Bates’s wildly popular account of the years he spent in the Amazon region, during which he identified several thousand new species of insects and animals. He published it at the urging of Darwin, who wrote a lengthy appreciation of the book in the Natural History Review vol. iii, 1863 , and who considered it to be the best work of its kind. “During the

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