Across Unknown South America [2 volumes] by Savage-Landor, A. Henry - 1913

Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose pages 431 to final page detached but still present. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Boston:: Little, Brown and Company,, 1913.. publisher's blue gilt cloth.. Spines sunned; both volumes tight and sound; contents fine.. 8vo,. With eight full-page plates in color, numerous illustrations from photographs, and maps..

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good+. 1913. Hardcover. Boards darkened and with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt spine lettering faded. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper. Hinges weakening; A classical travel book from the well known British Explorer, who was also a painter - travel details across the whole continent - including 8 color plates and numerous illustrations from photographs and maps; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 377, 439 pages .

Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1913. First American edition.Two volumes. xxiii+377 and xvi+439. Hardcover, no jacket. Top edges gilt.  Illustrated with eight full-page plates in color, numerous illutrations from photographs, and maps. In VG condition. Gilt decorated blue hardcover boards are lightly rubbed with gilt titling to spines a bit darkened. Gilt decoration to covers still bright. Dust spotting to foredges. Otherwise internally clean and unfoxed, square and securely bound.  Foldout map at back of Vol 1 is in fine condition.  Adventures of Savage-Landor exploring the interior of Brazil in 1911-12.  He was an English explorer, writer, and anthropologist, know for a "witty" writing style, and also known for his explorations in Nepal and China..  (cfm)

Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1913. First edition. Two Volume Set. Small 4to's, 432pp; 504pp, 2 maps, 8 colour plates, 260 illus from photographs by the author. A very good set bound in navy blue cloth & decorated with gilt stamped emblems. Vol. 2's cloth is surface scuffed with stain on rear. Slightly rubbed joints & wear to spine ends. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's name stamp & previous booksellers' label & stamp on front endpapers along with a small ex-library subject stamp. Edges & colour map are foxed. .

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.. First Editions; large 8vo; pp. xxiv, 432: xvi, 504: 2 maps, 8 coloured plates, and 260 illustrations from the authors photographs,.appendix, index, original blue decorative cloth, previous owners name stamp on front endpaper otherwise an excellent set cloth is bright and bindings tight. The appendix lists the principal plants, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and snakes of brazil, and provides vocabularies of the Bororo, Apiacar, Mundurucu, Campas or Antis.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Pub., . First Edition. Hardcover. Very good, Clean. Sm Quarto, Two Volumes, Blue Cloth With Four Shield And One Star in A Circle Decoration, Gilt Color Lettering. 1913 260 B & W Photo Plates by the author and in Color, PhotoGravure Tissue Guarded Frontispiece Of the Author Sm Quarto, Two Volumes, Blue Cloth With Four Shield And One Star in A Circle Decoration, Gilt Color Lettering, , PP.xxiv,432 Plus Two Maps, one of which is folding and xvi,504, Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal. Credited with E. O. Wilson of coining the term  biological diversity in 1980, he spent his life working in science… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Not Stated. A comprehensive documentation of Savage-Landor's time travelling across South America, with his own illustrations, collated and complete. First edition, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding with a decorative gilt motif to the front board.Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with two maps, eight coloured plates and 260 illustrations from photographs by the author. Collated, complete. Arnold Henry Savage-Landor was an explorer and anthropologist, often travelling throughout his life, starting by moving to Paris when he was fifteen to study. During his life he travelled to America, Japan, Korea, China, and Abyssinia. He was invited by Queen Victoria to share his tales and drawings from his trips, and subsequently started to publish travel books accompanied with his illustrations. These include 'In the Forbidden Land', 'Tibet and Nepal', and 'The Gems of the East'. 'Across the Unknown South America'… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxiii, [1], 1-377, [3]; [5], vi-xvi, 1-439, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt devices on each front board, gilt lettering and a gilt star on each spine; top edges gilt. Title pages printed in orange and black. Each volume with a frontispiece and a folding map, both volumes have a total of eight plates in color, and numerous illustrations from photographs. Oxford DNB, T. C. Farmbrough, revised, "Landor, (Arnold) Henry Savage (1867-1924)". The grandson of Walter Savage Landor, Henry Savage Landor was a painter and travel-writer. His most famous work is "In the Forbidden Land", in which he recounts his capture and torture after entering Tibet. He spent time with the Ainu people of Japan, and traveled to other countries in Asia like Korea and India. Landor climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and joined the Boxer uprising in 1900 for a brief time. Between 1903 and 1911 he… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 9.5" by 6.5". Various. The superb first U.S. edition of Savage-Landor's work exploring his travels in South America, complete with colour plates and folding maps. The first U.S. edition.In the original very scarce unclipped dust wrappers.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, two colour plates, and sixty-eight monochrome plates.Volume II illustrated with a colour frontispiece, one folding map, three colour plates, and one-hundred and four monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Arnold Henry Savage-Landor was an explorer and anthropologist, often travelling throughout his life, starting by moving to Paris when he was fifteen to study. During his life he travelled to America, Japan, Korea, China, and Abyssinia. He was invitied by Queen Victoria to share his tales and drawings from his trips, and subsequently started to publish travel books accompanied with his illustrations.… Read More