Exploration of the valley of the Amazon
Subtitle: made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon
Contributors: Gibbon, Lardner; United States. Navy Dept.
Series: 33rd Congress, 1st session, Ho. of Reps., executive -- no. 53; Senate executive document (United State. Congress. Senate) -- 33d Congress, 1st session, no. 53.
Publisher: Robert Armstrong, public printer
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 977
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Part I by Lieut. Herndon. Part II by Lardner Gibbon.

Pt. II has imprint: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, public printer, 1854.

Also issued (Washington 1853-1854) as Senate Ex. doc. no. 36, 32nd Congress, 2nd session.

Library's copy lacks the two atlases reported to be present in other copies.

Binding: blind and gilt tooled publisher's cloth.