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Libri antichi e moderni

Honig, Pieter And Frans Verdoorn (Editors)

Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies

1945

31,96 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1945
Luogo di stampa
New York. Board of the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curacao
Autore
Honig, Pieter And Frans Verdoorn (Editors)
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Pacific & Australia
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

4to [26.5 x 18 cm]; xxii, [ii], 491, [i] pp, frontis, 134 illustrations including many full-page from old sources, some double-page, tables, maps including folding, map endpapers. original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, endpaper signature, very good+, interior is clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A collection of articles and extracts from older sources on the natural sciences of the former Dutch colonies, a very useful reference with contributions by many eminent scientists including David Fairchild, Alfred Russell Wallace, Ernst Mayer, H. O. Forbes, and many others. All the articles are in English, some produced in English for the first time, covering all aspects of natural history, geology, rubber cultivation, botany, plant hunting, tobacco, climate, agriculture, forestry, cinchona cultivation, archaeology, etc.