Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo. Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak. by Beccari, Odoardo - 1904

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Hardback. New.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis, photos, index, xxiv, 423p. Laminated pictorial boards. 22cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1904 with the addition of a new Introduction by the Earl of Cranbrook. The maps in the original were not reproduced in the reprint.

Singapore: Oxford University, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Beccari was an Italian botanist who roamed about Borneo at the end of the first Brooke's time there. While the book is mainly concerned with recording Borneo's unique wildlife habitat before the developments of the 20th century, it also gives useful insights into life in Sarawak at the end of the rule of the first Rajah Brooke. This is a facsimile reprint of the original with over sixty black and white plates and line drawings and three maps. Although there's obviously lots of botanical information in the account of his wanderings that forms the main part of the book, Beccari ends the book with a 40 page appendix on the Bornean Rain Forest itself.Very Good Paperback 424 pages including an index. Weight 0.80 Kg. Postage within Malaysia is free The cover has minimal wear. The binding is tight and there is no tanning throughout.

Singapore-Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press. 1986. Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, xxiv, 424pp., [ij], 61 plates & text-illustrations, 3 maps, footnotes & references, appendix, index. Very fine copy., Facsimile London, 1904 [Archibald Constable & Co.].

London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1904, First edition. . original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering and gilt picture on front cover, top edge gilted, endpaper bookplate, no tears of maps, near fine and clean. . 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xxiv, 424 pp, frontis, 61 illustrations including many full-page, mostly from photos, 3 folding maps, some drawings, index. . An important book by one of the great botanical explorers and naturalists of the nineteenth century, the Italian botanist, spent time at Kew, where he met Charles Darwin, William Joseph Hooker and James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. The latter lead him to spending 3 years from 1865 to 1868 undertaking research in Sarawak, Brunei and other islands off present-day Malaysia and New Guinea, where he discovered many new species of palms, and many other plants such as a phosphorescent fungus that was bright enough to read a newspaper placed by it. Beccari was in Sarawak during 1865-67 where he collected over 800 bird skins including 40 not… Read More