Lot 384
H. Zoller, Deutsch-Neuguinea. Stuttgart, Berlin & Leipzig, 1891.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
384
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Hugo Zöller
Zöller, Hugo: Deutsch-Neuguinea und meine Ersteigung des Finisterre-Gebirges. Eine Schilderung des ersten erfolgreichen Vordringens zu den Hochgebirgen Inner-Neuguineas, der Natur des Landes, der Sitten der Eingeborenen und des gegenwärtigen Standes der deutschen Kolonisationsthätigkeit in Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land, Bismarck- und Salomo-Archipel, nebst einem Wortverzeichnis von 46 Papua-Sprachen. Stuttgart u. a.: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft 1891. 24,6 x 16,3 cm. With a photographic frontispiece, 24 photographic plates, 2 double-page maps, 1 multi-folded panoramic map and numerous photographic illustrations. XXXII pp., 546 pp. Half-leather binding. Spine and cover titles with gold lettering, and gilded spine.
(Slightly worn and bumped. Edges slightly browned due to the paper.)
Henze V, 571. Taylor 263. - ‘With brilliant journalistic flair, sparing no detail or dramatic effect, he described his little expedition of discovery and drew the attention of the geographical world to “all these giant mountain ranges”.’ (Henze, p. 570).
(Slightly worn and bumped. Edges slightly browned due to the paper.)
Henze V, 571. Taylor 263. - ‘With brilliant journalistic flair, sparing no detail or dramatic effect, he described his little expedition of discovery and drew the attention of the geographical world to “all these giant mountain ranges”.’ (Henze, p. 570).