Johan august wahlberg (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. A fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust jacket, of the twenty-third volume of the second series of publications by the Van Riebeeck Society. The brown cloth binding is clean and unworn, with bright gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and front board. Everything is tight and square, with unbumped corners. The contents are fresh, clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The unclipped dust jacket (no flap price) is clean and complete, with no discernible edgewear, and no fading whatever. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. "Johann August Wahlberg (1810-1856), a Swedish naturalist, traveled through large parts of southern Africa, especially Natal and Namibia, before the middle of the nineteenth century. He was sent by the Swedish Academy for Science to collect plants and animals in southern Africa for the Natural Sciences Museum in Stockholm. The journals of his travels are generally brief and objective, but his portrayal of people he met is usually reliable and unprejudiced." (Van Riebeeck Society).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. Presumed firsta nd only printing. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine, bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. xxx+ 249 pp. with bibliography, general index, natural history index. Tipped on color frontis and 4 maps. Translated into English from the original Swedish. Johan August Wahlberg (1810-1856) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer. He traveled in southern Africa between 1838 and 1856 and sent thousands of natural history specimens back to Sweden. His three African journals are transcribed here: the South African Journal (Feb. 1, 1839 to March 9, 1845); letters written from March, 1854 to November, 1855; and the Namibian/ Botswana Journal (May 30, 1855 to Feb. 23, 1856). Wahlberg was exploring along the Thamalakane River in Botswana when he was killed by a wounded elephant. On October 8, 1856, he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, before news of his death reached Sweden.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, '1994 for 1992'. Octavo, xxx, 249, [10] pages with a tipped-in colour frontispiece and a few illustrations plus 4 maps (with routes printed in red). Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series, Number 23.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. About fine in slightly spine faded dust jacket.

Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 8vo pp.249. Previous owner's bookplate on front cover verso. book.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1901 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 167 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 167.…