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Signed book: Through the Brazilian Wilderness. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.75, 383 pages, with supplemental map of Brazil. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in bold ink, “To T. H. Powers Farr, from his old friend, Theodore Roosevelt.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with some sunning to spine, rubbing to boards, and a "Library of Lawrence E. Miller" blindstamp to the last page. A popular book in which Roosevelt chronicles his 1913 expedition into the Brazilian jungle as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. Accompanied by the visitor’s card of poet and lecturer Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, “Mrs. Douglas Robinson,” the younger sister of Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of Eleanor Roosevelt. Robinson has signed and inscribed the card in fountain pen, “For Mr. Farr, with all kind wishes from, C. R. R.”
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