Bock carl alfred (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Temples and Elephants: the narrative of a journey of exploration through Upper Siam and Lao, etc. [With plates, including a portrait, and a map.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Bock, Carl Alfred; br/b/b 1884.br/b/b xvi. 438 p. ; 8º.br/b/b 010055.gg.16.br/.…

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 234 pages. German language. 9.60x6.69x0.51 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 495 pages. German language. 9.25x6.10x1.17 inches. In Stock.

London: Sampson, Low, et al. 1884. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth, pp. xvi, 438, [2, advertisements], one steel-engraved frontispiece-portrait of the King of Thailand, one tinted lithographic portrait of the author, lithographic folding map with author's route in red, woodcut illustrations in the text and on plates; ecpertly re-cased; a very good copy in a recent slip-case.Very uncommon first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to a General Consul in Danish-Norwegian, dated 1884, on the printed dedication page. This book records Carl Bock's journey to northern Thailand and Laos which had the support of H.M. King Chulalongkorn, to whom the book is dedicated. Carl Alfred Bock, a Norwegian natural scientist was the 'son of a merchant, brought up and educated in Oslo. In 1868 went to England where he married Mary Jane Absalon, and after a year of study and travel found a job with the Swedish-Norwegian Consul in Grimsby. When the Consul died, [he] moved to London to pursue his interest in natural science, building up a circle of contacts which included members of the London Zoological Society . Bock's self-funded trip to Thailand (then called Siam) and what is now northern Thailand in 1881-2 included visits to the towns of Bangkok and Ayutthaya in central Thailand, Raheng (Tak) in the west, and in the north, Lamphun, Lakhon (Lampang), Chiangmai, Fang, Kiang Hai (Chiang Rai), and Kiang Tsen (Chiang Saen)' (Natural History Museum, online).…

Zustand: Very Good. Stockholm, Oscar L. Lamm, 1884. 8:o. (4),+ VI,+ 288; (2),+ 289-380 s.+ 8 planscher i tontryck,+ 4 kol. litogr. planscher,+ 1 utvikbar karta. s. 81-82 i första delen med fläckar sannolikt efter torkande av växter. Förlagets blå dekorerade klotband, rygg och falsar som vanligt nötta. Första svenska utgåvan, översatt från andra engelska upplagan som kom 1882. Det engelska originalet utkom 1881. Innehpåller som tillägg en förteckning över land- och sötvattensnäckor från Sumatra och Borneå liksom över listor över sumatranska fjärilar samt över fåglar som samlats i höglandet på Sumatraas västkust. Hardcover / Hardback.…