SIR ROBERT HERMANN SCHOMBURGK (1804-1865) Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana... after sketches taken during the expedition... in... 1835 to 1839. London: Whitehead & Co. for Ackermann & Co., 1841. 2° (530 x 365mm). 2pp. subscriber's list, dedication to the Duke of Devonshire with his arms printed in gilt. Hand-coloured additional lithographic title by M.Gauci after Charles Bentley printed by P.Gauci, 12 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS by George Barnard Coke Smyth and P.Gauci after Charles Bentley printed by Gauci and Charles Hullmandel, 12 wood-engraved illustrations by G.P.Nicholls after Charles Blunt, the views all after original sketches by John Morrison one engraved map by John Murray outlined in red and blue. (Some general light soiling to margins, the map and subscriber's leaf almost detached.) Contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt (rebacked and cornered in green calf, some scuffing to covers). Provenance : Thomas C. Forte (subscriber, of British Guiana, presentation inscription to:); Caroline Leslie Forte (inscription dated Demerara 1842). A fine subscriber's copy of the hand-coloured issue of this important work. Schomburgk, as a result of the journey described here, discovered and sent to England the Victoria Regia waterlily, and was awarded the R.G.S.'s gold medal for the scientific work undertaken and in 1840 was able to suggest a possible border between Venezuela and British Guiana, the so-called 'Schomburgk line'. The British government adopted his suggestions and between 1841-3, as a commissioner, he surveyed and marked out the boundary. As is made clear in the preface, sketches were made under the direction of Schomburgk by James Morrison (the expedition's draughtsman), these were then worked up Charles Bentley in London, and plates were produced from these finished sketches. Although the Victoria Regia waterlily had been described before, it had not been named or seen in Europe, where it caused a sensation. A genteel race began to get the plant to bloom, between some of the great gardens: a race eventually won in 1851, using a specially constructed water tank, by the dedicatee of the present work, the Duke of Devonshire. Abbey Travel 720; Sabin 77796.
SIR ROBERT HERMANN SCHOMBURGK (1804-1865) Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana... after sketches taken during the expedition... in... 1835 to 1839. London: Whitehead & Co. for Ackermann & Co., 1841. 2° (530 x 365mm). 2pp. subscriber's list, dedication to the Duke of Devonshire with his arms printed in gilt. Hand-coloured additional lithographic title by M.Gauci after Charles Bentley printed by P.Gauci, 12 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS by George Barnard Coke Smyth and P.Gauci after Charles Bentley printed by Gauci and Charles Hullmandel, 12 wood-engraved illustrations by G.P.Nicholls after Charles Blunt, the views all after original sketches by John Morrison one engraved map by John Murray outlined in red and blue. (Some general light soiling to margins, the map and subscriber's leaf almost detached.) Contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt (rebacked and cornered in green calf, some scuffing to covers). Provenance : Thomas C. Forte (subscriber, of British Guiana, presentation inscription to:); Caroline Leslie Forte (inscription dated Demerara 1842). A fine subscriber's copy of the hand-coloured issue of this important work. Schomburgk, as a result of the journey described here, discovered and sent to England the Victoria Regia waterlily, and was awarded the R.G.S.'s gold medal for the scientific work undertaken and in 1840 was able to suggest a possible border between Venezuela and British Guiana, the so-called 'Schomburgk line'. The British government adopted his suggestions and between 1841-3, as a commissioner, he surveyed and marked out the boundary. As is made clear in the preface, sketches were made under the direction of Schomburgk by James Morrison (the expedition's draughtsman), these were then worked up Charles Bentley in London, and plates were produced from these finished sketches. Although the Victoria Regia waterlily had been described before, it had not been named or seen in Europe, where it caused a sensation. A genteel race began to get the plant to bloom, between some of the great gardens: a race eventually won in 1851, using a specially constructed water tank, by the dedicatee of the present work, the Duke of Devonshire. Abbey Travel 720; Sabin 77796.
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