I have here for sale a book entitled A NATURALIST IN THE GUIANAS by Eugene Andre, with a preface by Dr J Scott Keltie. It is a first edition published by Smith, Elder & Co, London in 1904. It has 34 b/w photographic plates and a fold-out map. One of the plates is colour and the route on the map is delineated in red.

Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuela and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915. He travelled up the Cuara, a tributary of the Orinoco, in 1897, 1898, 1900-1901 and describes the natural history and the native people. He made valuable contributions to our knowledge of bird life in the Venezuelan forests. 6 of his party of 14 died after a shipwreck and 26 days' journey through the wilderness to the nearest settlement. It has become a classic work on the area.

Red cloth hardboards with a gilt image of a flower to the front board. Gilt title lettering to the spine. Slightly bumped to head and tail. Boards in very good condition. Name written to the prelim page. Pages clean throughout. 310 pages, 23 cm x 15 cm.