The Amazon and Madeira Rivers, Sketches and Descriptions From the Note-book of an Explorer by Keller, Franz

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Folio. xvi, 177 pages. Illustrated with 68 illustrations on wood. Green cloth hardcover with black decorated borders and gilt stamped illustration on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. All edges gilt. Cloth is split on the outer joints and appears to be partly repaired with glue. Cloth corners are worn and chipped. Stain on the front cover. Front hinge is cracked. Very thin crack on the rear hinge. Interior contents are very clean. Gift inscription written on the right front flyleaf - "Anna E. Foster from cousin Alony? Jany 1. 1875." A fair to good copy.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1875. New edition. Quarto. 210 pp. With sixty-eight illustrations on wood; many of them full page. Publisher's brown cloth, front stamped in black and with a central design in black and gilt, gilt spine lettering, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Aside from some minor spine extremity wear, a lovely and very clean copy.