THE NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS BY HENRY WALTER BATES 1879 FIFTH EDITION
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[BATES, HENRY WALTER]. 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. London: John Murray, 1879.
Fifth edition; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5cm x 13cm x 3cm); pp. x, 394, [32] advertisements; English text; handsomely bound in publisher's original gilt decorated cloth; green coated endpapers; Initial and terminal blanks present; 40 illustrations including a frontispiece; printed footnotes; rear index in double columns. Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square, the covers well-preserved preserved, with very light bumping to spine ends. Interior with some light foxing to endpapers, else largely clean; previous owner name neatly inked twice to front endpapers. A wonderful copy.