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(SOUTH AMERICA -- AMAZON RIVER.) William Lewis Herndon. [Maps to Accompany Herndon's Exploration of: (SOUTH AMERICA -- AMAZON RIVER.) William Lewis Herndon. [Maps to Accompany Herndon's Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon]. 3 lithographed folding maps (one color-printed in outline). 8vo format gi

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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: [Exploration] Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon Made Under the Direction of William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, United States Navy Department. Published by Robert Armstrong, Washington, 1853-

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33 vols. Travel/Exploration: [Travel] 33 vols. in hardcover and paperback.A Botanist in the Amazon Valley. R. Ruggles Gates.H.F. & G Whitherby, London 1927.Condition: Very good to near fine. General wear.Provenance: From the Libr

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Herndon. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

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[Brazil] Herndon, William Lewis & Lardner Gibbon. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made Under Direction of the Navy Department. Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson/Robert Armstrong, 1853-54. 2 volumes. Vol. I Senate Doc., Volume II House Doc. With the accompanying atlas volume. 8vo. Original brown and maroon cloth. A work that has many "minute, accurate and very interesting accounts of the aborigines of the Andes, and the Amazon and its tributaries" (Sabin 31524). Hill 803.Condition: Minor rubbing. Foxing. Atlas volume front board detached with chipping to spine.Provenance: From the Library of the Godfather of Biodiversity, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy.

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