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MATO GROSSO LAST VIRGIN LAND, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MATO GROSSO BASED ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL BRAZIL 1967-9 ( SIGNED COPY )
by ANTHONY SMITH , Zoologist & Scientific Fellow
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0718107349
- ISBN 13
- 9780718107345
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LONDON: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1971 Green Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 255 x 210 mm approx. 288 pp.Illustrated with over 20 photographs most of which in colour the book is based on the investigation commissioned by the Royal Society/Royal Geographical Society into the flora, fauna, climate, soils, rocks and human inhabitants of central Brazil undertaken from 1967 to 1969. The author, a trained Zoologist and Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and of the Royal Geographical Society was on the expedition and the copy offered by us is signed by him on a compliments slip from the Royal Society and The Royal Geographical Society pasted to the front free end paper. The book having been given to Roderick Cavaliero who spent time in Brazil as an Administrator. VG/VG (Book- A little shelf wear to extremities of boards. Name of recipient of the book from the Royal Society on compliments slip as above with his ink rubber ex libris stamp above. Dust Jacket- a little light shelf rubbing to head of spine. Non price clipped Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No notable defects to book or jacket). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Title
- MATO GROSSO LAST VIRGIN LAND, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MATO GROSSO BASED ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL BRAZIL 1967-9 ( SIGNED COPY )
- Author
- ANTHONY SMITH , Zoologist & Scientific Fellow
- Illustrator
- DOUGLAS BOTTING & GEOFFREY BRIDGETT (PHOTOGRAPHS)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0718107349
- ISBN 13
- 9780718107345
- Publisher
- MICHAEL JOSEPH
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Amazon , Mato Grosso, Central Brazil, Anthony Smith Zoologist & Scientific Fellow, The Royal Society, The Royal Geographical Society, Scientific Expeditions, The River Xingo, Richard Mason, Sao Marcos Mission, Natural History, Signed Books, Books on
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