A Naturalist in the Guianas by Eugene Andre

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

London, United Kingdom: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. This is a nice clean copy with the boards having a little bit of edge wear . Not dated but probably circa 1902. 382pp. A digital photo can be made available..

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Paperback / softback. New.

Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First Edition. Very Good. Small stains on cover. Otherwise, little to no wear.

Hardback. New.

CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, January 1904. Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good. Octavo in full red cloth, gilt spine title and cover decoration. Two lovely chromolithographs with tissue guared, fold-out map at the rear. Very Good: corners and spine ends bumped and lightly rubbed, foxing to the title page, spine mildly faded, contemporary p.o. signature on the front free endpaper.

NY 1904 Scribners. Preface by Dr. J. Scott Keltie. 8vo., 310pp., 34 illustrations including photo illustrations and some very attractive chromolithographs of birds, large foldout map, red cloth with gilt orchid on front. Small paper number label on lower spine and museum blindstamp on titlepage. Good, corners and spine ends a bit worn. .

E-358. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Smith, Elder & Co, London, UK. 1904. Xiv, 310 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915. The author traveled up the Cuara, a tributary of the Orinoco, in 1897, 1898, 1900-1901 and describes the natural history and the native people. He made valuable contributions to our knowledge of… Read More

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