Description: FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Title: Les puris dans leurs foretsMap Maker: WIED-NEUWIED, Maximilian Alexander PhilippPlace / Date: Paris 1820-21Coloring: black and whitePublication: Voyage au Brésil, dans les années 1815, 1816 et 1817Size: Paper 360 mm x 510 mm. Engraving 190 mm x 190 mm = 140 mm x 210 mmCondition: Good. Foxing, Original margins.Description: An account of an expedition to south-east Brazil (1815-17) by Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867), German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist, a protegé of Alexander von Humboldt. The flora, fauna, history and topography of Brazil is described and illustrated in great detail. Maximilian arrived in Brazil in July of 1815 and spent two years there, "aided in his research by Wied family retainers Christian Simonis (estate gardner) and David Dreidoppel (huntsman and taxidermist) and two German scientists he met in Rio de Janeiro - ornithologist Georg Wilhelm Freyriss (1789-1825) and botanist Friedrich Sellow (1789-1831). The collections and records produced under very difficult field conditions in the eastern Brazilian rain forests were prodigious and formed the bases for important publications written by the prince in subsequent years at Neuwied" (Paul Schach, introduction to "The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied: May 1832–April 1833", page xxxviii). Paul Schach in his "An Introduction to Maximilian, Prince and Scientist", states: "Reise nach Brasilien in de Jahren 1815 bis 1817" (Journey to Brazil in the Years 1815 to 1817), earned [Maximilian] high esteem not only for his exemplary description and classification of Brazilian animal life but also for his pioneering efforts in ethnology among the Botocudos and neighboring tribes. More than a century later, Professor Herber Baldus of Sao Paulo described Maximilian as 'the first scientist who ever came to Brazil for the express purpose of observing the aborigines in their native habitations... What he saw there he described thoroughly and independently of opinions of his time ***Please contact me if you haveany questions. Thank you! ******This is a guaranteed ORIGINALPRINT from the period of creation, NOT a reproduction******Accepted payment methods:PayPal ONLY ***
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Country/Region: Brasil, Brazil
Cartographer/Publisher: Alexander Philipp Maximilian.
Printing Technique: WIED-NEUWIED, Maximilian Alexander Philipp
Year: 1820
Date Range: 1800-1899
City: Brasil
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