Drawings by Richard Spruce of scenery and local people throughout the Amazon and Orinoco river systems Drawings from Richard Spruce's travels across Northern South America, primarily the Amazon and Orinoco river systems, throughout Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezeuela and the Guyana highlands. Included are several renderings of indigenous picture-writing figures Spruce found in the Guyana Highlands, with notes on their possible origin and meaning, portraits of local people from different nations of the Orinoco and Rio Negro with notes thereon, drawings of notable landscapes in the region, vegetation and sundry objects from local villages. Drawn on for 'Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes' by A R Wallace (1908). 1850-1863