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Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. First edition. Two first UK editions bound together; a combination of travel tales, published by John Murray as part of his Home and Colonial Library series. Two first UK editions, issued together by London publisher, John Murray. This, the first edition of The Wayside Cross and Voyage up the Amazon, also published in the same year in New York by D. Appleton & Co., 1847. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Lacking backstrip. In 1846, American business man, William Henry Edwards travelled up the Amazon with his uncle, Armory Edwards.Voyage up the Amazon was later published from his observations during that voyage, recorded in his journal. Edwards is credited with inspiring numerous natural scientists with exploring the Amazon, including Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace. The Wayside Cross is a fictional novel, set during the First Carlist War in Spain from 1833-1840. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Lacking back strip.Externally, sound. Lifting to binding material at lower spine. Some soiling and marks to boards. Bumping with some light loss to cloth at very extremities. Hinges starting. Internally, generally firmly bound. Mild straining throughout, particularly between the two works. Pages firmly held, bright and clean. Characteristic age toning. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…