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The Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay and the River La Plata. Translated . with a Memoir of the Author, a Physical Sketch of the Country, and Numerous Notes, by W. Perceval Hunter. Volume I
Language: English
Published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1838
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. [xxxii]+340, with large folding map opposite title page. Bound in publisher's original green pebbled cloth, area of discoloration to margin of front board. Bookplate of D. F. Paterson of Edinburgh, President of the Naturalist's Society to front pastedown. Toning to endpages, else internally clean and bright. Though stated to be volume one, a planned second volume was never published. Translated, edited, and added to by William Perceval Hunter, a major but neglected naturalist of the period, whose printed dedication is a lengthy paean to John James Audubon. According to the Darwin Correspondence project, Darwin referenced Azara's work in his notebooks during his early study of evolution following the Beagle voyage, presumably consulting this translation. An unusually scarce book, with minimal institutional holdings and no records in commerce in nearly fifty years.
