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FORBES, Henry O. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885. 8° (222 x 144mm)., 4 coloured maps (3 folding), one coloured plate. Original pictorial green cloth gilt (corners bumped, library shelf number in chalk on spine). Provenance: Minnesota, St. Paul, Hill Library (stamp and punched mark on title). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
With 2 limited editions by William Beebe, Galápagos: World's End (New York, 1924, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), and The Arcturus Adventure (New York, 1926, ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), and with Henry Landsell's Through Central Asia (London, 1887), Alexander Marjoribanks' Travels in South and North America (London, 1853), Robert O. Cunningham's Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and the West Coast of Patagonia (Edinburgh, 1871), and an engraved panorama of "La Baie de la Poste (Ile de la Floriana, Galapagos)" on 2 sheets (1840-43). (8)
With 2 limited editions by William Beebe, Galápagos: World's End (New York, 1924, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), and The Arcturus Adventure (New York, 1926, ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), and with Henry Landsell's Through Central Asia (London, 1887), Alexander Marjoribanks' Travels in South and North America (London, 1853), Robert O. Cunningham's Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and the West Coast of Patagonia (Edinburgh, 1871), and an engraved panorama of "La Baie de la Poste (Ile de la Floriana, Galapagos)" on 2 sheets (1840-43). (8)
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