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. With a Memoir of the Author by Edward Clodd
London: John Murray, 1892. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 44 black and white illustrations throughout, double page color plates, folding map. Reprint of the unabridged edition [Second edition]. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt front panel and spine. Quarto. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. lxxxix, [2], 389, [folding map], [391]-395 (index). Boards a bit darkened edges and spine, offsetting to front and rear endpapers spine ends rubbed with shallow tears, loose signature separation midway, a very good copy. Item #227071
Signed and dated year of publication on the half-title page by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson of Dove's Press and Bindery fame. Additionally signed by important American ornithologist and naturalist Francis R. Cope Jr., dated 1938.
Considered an enduring classic in the literature of Natural History, Travel and Exploration, The Naturalist on the Rivers Amazon, originally published in 1863 in two volumes, was so well-received that an abridged single volume edition was immediately issued for the general public and went into multiple subsequent printings. This 1892 second edition restores the full text with additional material, including a double-page color illustration of "Mimicry Between Butterflies", reproduced from a Linnean Society publication. After persistent health issues, Bates died in the same year of this edition. This copy is signed and dated in the year of publication on the half-title page by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson of Dove's Press and Bindery fame. Additionally signed by important American ornithologist and naturalist Francis R. Cope Jr., dated 1938.
Clodd's 72-page memoir provides extensive background and introduces letters from Sir Joseph Hooker and Francis Darwin, and correspondence between Bates and Charles Darwin.
[For the first edition, see Sabin 3932a].
Price: $750.00