Willoughby p lowe (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of accounts from the travels of Willoughby P. Lowe, a naturalist collector for the British Museum. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, twenty-one plates, and fifteen in-text images. Collated complete. The diaries and accounts of Willoughby P. Lowe, a naturalist collector, and one of the last professional collectors, of the British Museum. The stories include: My First Venture Abroad, Expedition Through Kenya and Uganda to the Nile, A Trip to S. Nigeria, Sierra Leonne and Senegal, A Journey through Siam, and an Expedition to Madagascar. Illustrated by Henrik Gronvold, a Danish naturalist and artist known for his illustrations of birds, and J. P. W. Lowe, a British artist. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Good. H. G. Gronvold; J. P. W. Lowe (illustrator). book.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition. Large 8vo (149 x 233mm). Ppxx,271. B/w photograph plates, maps. Blue cloth, gilt motif to rear board, gilt titles to spine. Small snag to foot of spine. Slightly foxed but very good in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. "The unvarnished story of a naturalist-collector, and few men have crammed into a .life more travel and adventure". Observations of, and collecting in, the Phillipines, British East Africa, Egypt, the Sudan and Darfur, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, the Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Thailand. .…