South America.- Schomburgk (Robert Hermann) Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana , first edition, hand-coloured additional tinted lithographed pictorial title by M. Gauci after Charles Bentley and 12 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates by George Barnard, Coke Smith and P. Gauci after Bentley, engraved map with routes in red and blue, dedication leaf to the Duke of Devonshire with his arms printed in gold, list of subscribers, wood-engraved vignettes, foxed, title soiled and chipped at lower outer corner (also final plate), many leaves crudely reinforced at inner margin, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of plates, contemporary cloth-backed boards with original lithographed pictorial wrapper mounted on upper cover, rather worn and stained, rebacked, [Abbey, Travel 720; Sabin 77796; Tooley 447], folio, Ackermann & Co., 1841.

⁂ During this expedition Schomburgk discovered and then despatched to England the Victoria Regia waterlily. In 1840 he proposed the "Schomburgk line" - a possible border between British Guiana and neighbouring Venezuela.