SMYTH, William (1800-77) & Frederick LOWE (1811-47). Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para [sic], Across the Andes and Down the Amazon.

SMYTH, William (1800-77) and Frederick LOWE (1811-47).  Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para [sic], Across the Andes and Down the Amazon: Undertaken with a View of Ascertaining the Practicability of a Navigable Communication with the Atlantic, by the Rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon. London: John Murray, 1836. 8vo (225 x 140mm). Lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette on title, 10 lithographed and wood-engraved plates, folding engraved “Plan of the Rivers Ucayali and Amazon”, 14-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the end (plates and map quite heavily stained and browned with some offsetting onto text leaves, some mainly marginal staining to text). Modern half calf gilt, new endpapers. Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.