"Eugène André: A Naturalist in the Guianas".
Preface by Dr. J. Scott Keltie.
Illustrated with plates.
London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, circa 1905.
16 x 11 cm., 382 pages.
Text in French.
Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine, embossed front cover.
Very good condition.
André was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.