Through the Brazilian Wilderness.

First Edition. Account of Roosevelt’s “zoogeographic reconnaissance” with the Brazilian explorer Rondon to discover if the Rio da Dúvida (“River of Doubt”), flowed into the Amazon. Traversing some of the most dangerous territory of Amazonia the party was successful and the river was renamed Rio Roosevelt, sometimes Rio Teodoro, in his honour.

8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, title gilt to spine. Photogravure frontispiece and 48 half-tone plates, one folding and 2 full-page maps. Endpapers very lightly browned, marginal toning throughout, else a very good copy, the spine sunned.