Lot 362
Venezuela und das nördliche Südamerika. – 6 deutschsprachige Titel Reise- und Forschungsliteratur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Venezuela und das nördliche Südamerika. - 6 deutschsprachige Titel Reise- und Forschungsliteratur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
1) Hauff, Hermann (ed.): Alexander von Humboldt’s Journey to the Equatorial Regions of the New Continent. The only German-language edition recognised by A. von Humboldt. 4 vols. in 2. Stuttgart: Cotta 1859. 21.3 x 13.4 cm. Includes a lithographed fold-out map of Alexander von Humboldt’s itinerary. XIII, 403 pp., 1 blank leaf, 1 leaf, 416 pp.; 1 leaf, 403 pp., 1 blank leaf, 1 leaf, 444 pp. Cloth binding with gold-stamped title on the spine. (Stains, spine faded or browned, damage to the headband. Interior with foxing.) – Travel account of Humboldt’s great American expedition (1799–1804) in the authoritative German edition by Hermann Hauff. An outstanding work in the history of science, featuring impressive descriptions of the nature, geography and cultures of the New World.
2) Appun, Carl Ferdinand: *Unter den Tropen*. Travels through Venezuela, along the Orinoco, through British Guiana and along the Amazon River in the years 1849–1868. 2 vols. Jena: Costenoble 1871. 21.4 × 15.2 cm. With 12 woodcut plates and 2 lithographed illustrated plates. XI pp., 1 unnumbered p., 559 pp., 1 unnumbered p.; XII, 598 pp., 10 leaves. Half leather with gold-embossed spine. (Bound. Interior with foxing, more pronounced at the beginning and end.) – Borba de Moraes I, p. 43. Henze I, p. 87. - A travel work by the naturalist and explorer Carl Ferdinand Appun (1820–1872), based on nearly twenty years of stays and expeditions in northern South America, and counted amongst the most important 19th-century German-language travel accounts of Venezuela, Guiana and the Amazon region.
3) Sachs, Carl: From the Llanos. An account of a scientific expedition to Venezuela. Leipzig: Veit 1879. 22.5 x 15.2 cm. With frontispiece and 10 illustrations in the text. VII pp., 1 leaf, 369 pp. Half leather. (Stained, front cover cracked, headbands torn and frayed. Endpapers with glue stains. Frontispiece stapled in. Title page and dedication with foxing. Slightly browned.) – Henze IV, p. 724. - First edition of the travelogue by the young physiologist and naturalist Carl Sachs (1853–1878), who travelled through the Venezuelan Llanos on behalf of Emil du Bois-Reymond and with funding from the Humboldt Foundation to study the electric eel (Gymnotus electricus). In this account, which was praised for its unusually captivating narrative style shortly after its publication, Sachs combines precise scientific observations with vivid descriptions of the landscape, wildlife and people of Venezuela.
4) Bürger, Otto: Travels of a Naturalist in Tropical America (Journeys in Colombia and Venezuela). Third, revised and expanded edition. 2 vols. in 1. Leipzig: Dieterich 1923. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. With 32 illustrations on 16 plates and 4 folded tables. V pp., 1 unnumbered p., 1 leaf, 224 pp., 2 leaves, 222 pp., 1 leaf. Original binding. (Binding stained and browned; headbands torn and with defects in the covering. The first title page has a small tear in the outer margin. Browned throughout; paper somewhat brittle.) - A report on the research journey of the zoologist Otto Bürger through Colombia and Venezuela, based on his expedition of 1896/97. The third edition, which has been substantially revised compared with the first edition of 1900, deals in the first part with the Caribbean coast, the Magdalena and the Andes, and in the second part with the Llanos, Meta and Orinoco, as well as Trinidad and the Grenadines.
5) Nordenskiöld, Erland: Forests. Excursions in South America. Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening 1910. 19.5 x 14.2 cm. 100 pp., 1 leaf. Later hardback. (Stains, spine browned. Interior browned and minimally stained in places.) – One of 2,000 copies. Book design by M. Schwerdtfeger.
6) Koch, Conrad: La Colonia Tovar. History and Culture of an Alemannic Settlement in Venezuela. Geneva and Chicago: International Cultural Institute, 1970. 24 x 17 cm. With numerous illustrations. 336 pp. Original binding with original dust jacket. (Dust jacket with foxing and water stains; a tear has been repaired with adhesive tape. Binding with foxing and dust stains. Edges with foxing.) – A standard work on the history and culture of Colonia Tovar in Venezuela, founded in 1843 by emigrants from Baden. This monograph, which grew out of a Basel doctoral thesis, examines the origins, social structure, genealogy, language and cultural development of the Alemannic settlement, which remained isolated well into the 20th century, and is still regarded today as the definitive account of this unique chapter in emigration history. - Part of the print run was published under the same title as Volume 5 of the ‘Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie’.
1) Hauff, Hermann (ed.): Alexander von Humboldt’s Journey to the Equatorial Regions of the New Continent. The only German-language edition recognised by A. von Humboldt. 4 vols. in 2. Stuttgart: Cotta 1859. 21.3 x 13.4 cm. Includes a lithographed fold-out map of Alexander von Humboldt’s itinerary. XIII, 403 pp., 1 blank leaf, 1 leaf, 416 pp.; 1 leaf, 403 pp., 1 blank leaf, 1 leaf, 444 pp. Cloth binding with gold-stamped title on the spine. (Stains, spine faded or browned, damage to the headband. Interior with foxing.) – Travel account of Humboldt’s great American expedition (1799–1804) in the authoritative German edition by Hermann Hauff. An outstanding work in the history of science, featuring impressive descriptions of the nature, geography and cultures of the New World.
2) Appun, Carl Ferdinand: *Unter den Tropen*. Travels through Venezuela, along the Orinoco, through British Guiana and along the Amazon River in the years 1849–1868. 2 vols. Jena: Costenoble 1871. 21.4 × 15.2 cm. With 12 woodcut plates and 2 lithographed illustrated plates. XI pp., 1 unnumbered p., 559 pp., 1 unnumbered p.; XII, 598 pp., 10 leaves. Half leather with gold-embossed spine. (Bound. Interior with foxing, more pronounced at the beginning and end.) – Borba de Moraes I, p. 43. Henze I, p. 87. - A travel work by the naturalist and explorer Carl Ferdinand Appun (1820–1872), based on nearly twenty years of stays and expeditions in northern South America, and counted amongst the most important 19th-century German-language travel accounts of Venezuela, Guiana and the Amazon region.
3) Sachs, Carl: From the Llanos. An account of a scientific expedition to Venezuela. Leipzig: Veit 1879. 22.5 x 15.2 cm. With frontispiece and 10 illustrations in the text. VII pp., 1 leaf, 369 pp. Half leather. (Stained, front cover cracked, headbands torn and frayed. Endpapers with glue stains. Frontispiece stapled in. Title page and dedication with foxing. Slightly browned.) – Henze IV, p. 724. - First edition of the travelogue by the young physiologist and naturalist Carl Sachs (1853–1878), who travelled through the Venezuelan Llanos on behalf of Emil du Bois-Reymond and with funding from the Humboldt Foundation to study the electric eel (Gymnotus electricus). In this account, which was praised for its unusually captivating narrative style shortly after its publication, Sachs combines precise scientific observations with vivid descriptions of the landscape, wildlife and people of Venezuela.
4) Bürger, Otto: Travels of a Naturalist in Tropical America (Journeys in Colombia and Venezuela). Third, revised and expanded edition. 2 vols. in 1. Leipzig: Dieterich 1923. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. With 32 illustrations on 16 plates and 4 folded tables. V pp., 1 unnumbered p., 1 leaf, 224 pp., 2 leaves, 222 pp., 1 leaf. Original binding. (Binding stained and browned; headbands torn and with defects in the covering. The first title page has a small tear in the outer margin. Browned throughout; paper somewhat brittle.) - A report on the research journey of the zoologist Otto Bürger through Colombia and Venezuela, based on his expedition of 1896/97. The third edition, which has been substantially revised compared with the first edition of 1900, deals in the first part with the Caribbean coast, the Magdalena and the Andes, and in the second part with the Llanos, Meta and Orinoco, as well as Trinidad and the Grenadines.
5) Nordenskiöld, Erland: Forests. Excursions in South America. Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening 1910. 19.5 x 14.2 cm. 100 pp., 1 leaf. Later hardback. (Stains, spine browned. Interior browned and minimally stained in places.) – One of 2,000 copies. Book design by M. Schwerdtfeger.
6) Koch, Conrad: La Colonia Tovar. History and Culture of an Alemannic Settlement in Venezuela. Geneva and Chicago: International Cultural Institute, 1970. 24 x 17 cm. With numerous illustrations. 336 pp. Original binding with original dust jacket. (Dust jacket with foxing and water stains; a tear has been repaired with adhesive tape. Binding with foxing and dust stains. Edges with foxing.) – A standard work on the history and culture of Colonia Tovar in Venezuela, founded in 1843 by emigrants from Baden. This monograph, which grew out of a Basel doctoral thesis, examines the origins, social structure, genealogy, language and cultural development of the Alemannic settlement, which remained isolated well into the 20th century, and is still regarded today as the definitive account of this unique chapter in emigration history. - Part of the print run was published under the same title as Volume 5 of the ‘Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie’.