SCHOMBURGK, Robert

The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. Volume II: The Boundary Survey, 1840-1844

London, Hakluyt Society, 2004.

Small quarto, xviii, 331 pages with 49 illustrations.

Gilt-decorated blue cloth; front free endpaper lightly creased; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little creased and sunned on the spine (and with a short closed tear).

Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 17. Edited by Peter Rivière. 'The second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana ... previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. [Volume II includes] the material censored by the Colonial Office' (dustwrapper blurb).

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