Wanderings in South America the North-West of the United States and the Antilles in the Years 1812 1816 1820 & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds etc. for Cabinets of Natural History. ...

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Edited with Biographical Introcution and Explanatory Index by J.G. Wood. London: Macmillan 1879. Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Top edge gilt. (xvi 520pp.). With 100 text-illusts. Lightly foxed otherwise a fine and complete copy. NOTE: Waterton's account of his four journeys largely through the wilds of Demerara Brazil and Guyana provides varied and valuable descriptions of tropical birds animals and Indian tribes.