A journey in Brazil. Agassiz, Professor And Mrs. Louis.

A journey in Brazil.

Author	AGASSIZ, Professor and Mrs. Louis.
Publisher	Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871
Edition	8
Weight	600 gram
CF	Borba de Moraes I, pp. 14-15. This edition not in Sabin. "The scientific results of this expedition were published by Louis Agassiz and C.F. Hartt in 1870 [see Sabin 30714].
Keywords	Brazil
Booknumber	2441
8vo, pp. XIX, 540. Reddish-brown sand grain blind tooled cloth. Rebacked spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 full page woodcuts. The famous Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz [1807-1873], professor at Harvard, undertook this "Brazilian Expedition" - made possible by Nathaniel Thayer and lasting from April 1865 till July 1866 - to collect specimens for his Natural History Museum and because of "some disturbances of my health" and to collect specimens for his Natural Museum at Boston [they returned with e.g. 1500 fish-species whereas before that time only ca. 100 from that region were known]. Most of this narrative has been written by Mrs. [Elizabeth C.] Agassiz, originally kept as a diary "partly for the entertainment of her friends", but eventually including the scientific observations by the Husband-Professor. There are chapters on Rio de Janeiro and environs, Par�, Manaos, Tabtinga, Tefe�, Mauhes, the Rio Negro, Cear�, excursions on the coast, physical history of the Amazones and general impressions of Brazil. With all 20 woodcuts [13 inside and 7 full page outside of text] from the original photographs. The first edition appeared in 1868 [Ticknor and Fields] and the first edition with hard cover in 1870 [at their successors Fields, Osgood & Co]. A Portugese, French and Spanish translation appeared in 1871, 1874 and 1890. With ex libris of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at New York. Lower margins of pp. 75-81 slightly damaged.
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A journey in Brazil.

AGASSIZ, Professor and Mrs. Louis.