2 volumes. xii, 443; viii, 478 pp. Wood-engraved frontispieces; added engraved title-pages; folding map with some hand-coloring. (8vo) original green cloth with gilt vignette of an Indian holding flags on each front cover. First Edition, first issue.

First issue, with the gilt vignettes on the front covers. Vivid descriptions of Burton's travels and observations throughout Brazil in diary form, with much on the gold mines worked by English companies. Posted as Consul at Santos, Sao Paulo's port, in 1865, Burton sailed to Rio de Janeiro before traveling into the interior and down the Sao Francisco by raft. Lady Burton herself saw the work through publication, writing a revealing preface in which she gives vent to her personal feelings regarding her husband's views on religion and polygamy, begging the "fair or gentle reader" to bear in mind that her husband is writing ''from a high moral pedestal". Penzer pp. 78-80.