Author: ALLERS, Christian Wilhelm.
Title: Rund um die Erde.
Description: Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1898). Folio. Original decorated cloth with 6 portrait medallions around a globe (extremties of spine sl. dam.), a.e.g. With numerous plates and illustrations by the author. First edition; with an autograph dedication to H.C. Klinkert, a Dutch Mennonite missionary and translator, by his students. - Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 - 1915) was a German painter, printmaker and naturalist travelling around the world for more than 10 years. His drawings are rich in detail and are of realistic style. The journey led across the Mediterranean to Egypt, through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, to Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Kiautschou, Japan, San Francisco and New York.
Keywords: Africa America Asia Indonesia
Title: Rund um die Erde.
Description: Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1898). Folio. Original decorated cloth with 6 portrait medallions around a globe (extremties of spine sl. dam.), a.e.g. With numerous plates and illustrations by the author. First edition; with an autograph dedication to H.C. Klinkert, a Dutch Mennonite missionary and translator, by his students. - Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 - 1915) was a German painter, printmaker and naturalist travelling around the world for more than 10 years. His drawings are rich in detail and are of realistic style. The journey led across the Mediterranean to Egypt, through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, to Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Kiautschou, Japan, San Francisco and New York.
Keywords: Africa America Asia Indonesia
Price: EUR 165.00 = appr. US$ 179.33 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36755
- Book number: 36755