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Livres anciens et modernes

Honig, Pieter And Frans Verdoorn (Editors)

Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies

1945

23,50 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1945
Lieu d'édition
New York. Board of the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curacao
Auteur
Honig, Pieter And Frans Verdoorn (Editors)
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Pacific & Australia
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

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, 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 Russel 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.