GARDNER, George.

Travels in the interior of Brazil, principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond disctricts, during the years 1836–1841.

London, Reeve Brothers, 1846. 8vo (230 x 145 mm), pp. xvi, 562, 12 (advertisements), with a frontispiece (lightly spotted) and a map; original purple cloth; spine slightly faded, corners bumped, a little fraying at joints and at head of spine. First edition. Gardner ‘spent two years in Rio and the neighbourhood, afterwards travelling to Pernambuco via Bahia, then beginning the long journey through the “sertões” of Ceará, Piauhi, Goyaz and Minas Geraes and returning to Rio. The great importance of his travels lies in the descriptions he gives of a region until then entirely unknown to European travellers. His book compares with the best of published works on the subject. Gardner was a botanist, and Director of the Botanical Garden of Ceylon until his death there in 1849’ (Borba de Moraes). Gardner’s absence in Ceylon while his book was being prepared for the press led to the publishers seeking the assistance of John Miers in correcting technical, botanical and Brazilian names, which is acknowledged in the preface. The book is dedicated to William Jackson Hooker.Borba de Moraes p. 346; Naylor 161; Sabin 26645. Abbey 711 records the second edition (1849).

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