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, Henry Walter Bates. Published by John Murray, London, 1891. Sixth Edition. x, 395pp. with frontispiece, map and illustrations; rear section of publisher’s ads. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration and gilt spine titles; yapped corners; black endpapers. Period booksellers label to pastedown and two prior owner’s names with dates of 1897 and 1937; spotting to last few pages of index, and an occasional spot in text; front hinge is partially cracked although all pages holding strong; spine has light lean; boards have some rubbing. In good to very good condition. Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS (1825-1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1
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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, Henry Walter Bates. Published by John Murray, London, 1891. Sixth Edition. x, 395pp. with frontispiece, map and illustrations; rear section of publisher's ads. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration and gilt spine titles; yapped corners; black endpapers. Period booksellers label to pastedown and two prior owner's names with dates of 1897 and 1937; spotting to last few pages of index, and an occasional spot in text; front hinge is partially cracked although all pages holding strong; spine has light lean; boards have some rubbing. In good to very good condition.
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS (1825-1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848.
. 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, Henry Walter Bates. Published by John Murray, London, 1891. Sixth Edition. x, 395pp. with frontispiece, map and illustrations; rear section of publisher's ads. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration and gilt spine titles; yapped corners; black endpapers. Period booksellers label to pastedown and two prior owner's names with dates of 1897 and 1937; spotting to last few pages of index, and an occasional spot in text; front hinge is partially cracked although all pages holding strong; spine has light lean; boards have some rubbing. In good to very good condition.
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS (1825-1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848.
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- 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, Henry Walter Bates. Published by John Murray, London, 1891. Sixth Edition. x, 395pp. with frontispiece, map and illustrations; rear section of publisher’s ads. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration and gilt spine titles; yapped corners; black endpapers. Period booksellers label to pastedown and two prior owner’s names with dates of 1897 and 1937; spotting to last few pages of index, and an occasional spot in text; front hinge is partially cracked although all pages holding strong; spine has light lean; boards have some rubbing. In good to very good condition. Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS (1825-1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1
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