H.W. Bates - Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure - 1870

"Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure. With engravings from original drawings by celebrated artists" by H.W. Bates - Cassell, Petter & Galpin, ca 1870 first UK edition - complete in six volumes - 30cmx20cm - condition: good, in green half leather binding, with rubbing and wear to boards and edges, name to ffep, plates present, page foxing.

Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure is a multi-volume 19th-century collection of travel and exploration accounts curated by the renowned naturalist and explorer Henry Walter Bates. Over 1000 engravings from original drawings and maps. Editor was Assistant Secretary of Royal Geographical Society. The contents of all six volumes contain over 200 accounts of exploration and description such as; New Russian expedition to the coast of Northern Siberia; The first journey of exploration across Vancouver Island, Fiji islands, North Polar Discovery, Survey of Sinai, A Journey up the Orinoco; Japan and the Japanese, Patagonia and the Patagonians;The Pacific Railway, New Guinea and The Kingdom of Dahomey