Wanderbilder, Nach Eigenen Aquarellen u. Oelgemaelden Naturwunder der Tropenwelt, Ceylon u. Insulinde
by Haeckel, Ernst
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- no dj
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, United States
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About This Item
no dj Illus by author Travel Gera-Untermhaus Koehler 1905 1st Hardbound Folio Collection of tropical views of Ceylon and Indonesia from the art of naturalist and painter Ernst Haeckel. Cloth pictorial portfolio holds 40 color plates measuring approximately 14 3/4" x 11" plus sheets of descriptive text with b+w illustrations. There are also 2 four page folded title and descriptive sheets at the beginning. Missing is plate # 39. The binding has edgewear with splitting to cloth spine and borders and light edgewear to the color pictorial front cover and rear cover. The sheets and plates are in EX condition; the portfolio is Good. Text is in German.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OURBOOKS007508
- Title
- Wanderbilder, Nach Eigenen Aquarellen u. Oelgemaelden Naturwunder der Tropenwelt, Ceylon u. Insulinde
- Author
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Book Condition
- Used - no dj
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gera-Untermhaus
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Ceylon Indonesia Sri Lanka Illustrated
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Pages Past Books
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Kingston, New York
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