Yuracares Plantation.
[Sketched by Lieutenant L. Gibbon. Lith. of P.S. Duval & Co. Phil.] [Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, c.1853.] Rare lithograph. Sheet 140 x 210mm (5½ x 8¼"). Inscriptions weakly inked. From ''Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department'' by USN Lieutenants William Lewis Herdon and Larder Gibbon. Leaving Lima on 21 May 1851, Herndon and Gibbon split their group took different routes to gather even more information on this vast area. After travelling 4,366 miles, Herndon reached Pará, Brazil, on 11 April 1852. Herndon wrote the first volume of 'Exploration', Gibbon the second.
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