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A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration From 1878 to 1883
por Forbes, Henry O[gg]
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/No Dust Jacket As Issued
- Livreiro
-
DeLand, Florida, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs.
The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix.
Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition.
Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special ethnographic information of the little known inhabitants of the Timor and the Tanimbar Islands.
REF: Nissen ZBI 1408; Wood, p. 344.
The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix.
Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition.
Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special ethnographic information of the little known inhabitants of the Timor and the Tanimbar Islands.
REF: Nissen ZBI 1408; Wood, p. 344.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 010740
- Título
- A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration From 1878 to 1883
- Autor
- Forbes, Henry O[gg]
- Ilustrador
- Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs
- Formato/Encadernação
- A Near Fine Hardcover
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No Dust Jacket As Issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition, First Printing
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Harper & Brothers
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1885
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Description and travel; General; History; Life Sciences; Malay Archipelago; Natural history; Science; Zoology
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