first edition
1868 · Boston
by AGASSIZ, Louis, and Elizabeth
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 540. Illustrated with engravings. Bound in leather backed cloth (spine well worn, especially along the hinge (reinforced with tape), clean inside, just good. A 19th month collecting expedition to Brazil begun in the spring of 1865. They collected specimens for Agassiz's natural history museum at Harvard. It was one of the famous scientific expeditions up the Amazon with most of it written by Mrs. Agassiz, kept in a diary.
(Inventory #: 55877)