1825 1ed Wanderings
South America Natural History Darwin & Wallace Inspiration
Charles Waterton (1781-1865)
was a famous English naturalist, explorer, taxidermist, pioneering
conservationist and overall polymath interested in anything and everything.
first visited British Guiana with his father in 1804. He subsequently
returned on 4 occasions between 1812 and 1824, during which time he travelled
extensively in the Guianas and across the northern part of South America. He
was one of the first to observe the birds and animals of the tropics. He
described his discoveries in this book ‘Wanderings in South America,’ which
inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
This 1825 first edition
of Waterton’s ‘Wanderings’ catered to the reading public's taste for adventures
with its descriptions of a fight with a boa constrictor and the capture of
crocodiles and his descriptive writing caused a stir in Victorian England with
the publication of a drawing of a half man, half animal creature he was
supposed to have seen labeled on the frontispiece 'The Nondescript'. This
specimen is still on display at the Wakefield Museum, along with other items
from Waterton's collection.
Item number: #7306
Price: $550
WATERTON, Charles
Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the
United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824 : with
original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c., for
cabinets of natural history
London : J. Mawman, 1825.
Details:
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Collation: Complete
with all pages
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[vii], 326
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References: Sabin
102094; Borba 937; Howego W16
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather;
tight and secure
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Size: ~11.5in X 9in
(29cm x 23cm)
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