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A naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut islands, with notices on the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited.
de HICKSON, Sydney John
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London, John Murray, 1889.Original decorated cloth gilt (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, 6 plates and 27 wood-engravings. XV,392 pp.First edition. - 'I have brought together in this volume some extracts from the journal of my wanderings in North Celebes, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, a more detailed account of the fauna of the small islands called Talisse, situated in the Straits of Banka, and a summary of our knowledge of the ethnology of the district of Minahassa' (Preface). The book concentrates specifically on the northern coast of the island of Celebes (Sulawesi). Sydney John Hickson (1859 - 1940), was a British zoologist known for his groundbreaking research in evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics. He travelled in the Malay archipelago in 1885-1886. - With handwritten dedication, dated 1896 and fine bookplate of J.G. van Marle. - A fine copy.Cat. KITLV p.31; Casey Wood p. 386.
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- A naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut islands, with notices on the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited.
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