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WIED-NEUWIED, Prince Maximilian Alexander Phillip zu (1782-1867). Travels in Brazil, in 1815, 1816 and 1817. London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820.
8° (213 x 122mm.) 2 folding aquatint and 7 line-engraved plates, one folding, by W. Read (line-engraved plates spotted, one with caption shaved), modern green calf-backed boards.
An account of Prince Maximilian's travels through Brazil from 1815-17 -- the most profitable scientific expedition of the 19th-century -- published in the same year as the first edition. Abbey ravel 705 (note); Borba de Moraes p.545; cf. Brunet III, 1550.
8° (213 x 122mm.) 2 folding aquatint and 7 line-engraved plates, one folding, by W. Read (line-engraved plates spotted, one with caption shaved), modern green calf-backed boards.
An account of Prince Maximilian's travels through Brazil from 1815-17 -- the most profitable scientific expedition of the 19th-century -- published in the same year as the first edition. Abbey ravel 705 (note); Borba de Moraes p.545; cf. Brunet III, 1550.
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