Hermann Beckler (14 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good text, minor to light reading wear to text and minor edge bumping to dust jacket. No notable marking to text. US orders shipped via US Mail. International orders shipped via DHL. Additional postage may be required on oversize books and sets. NO prison orders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A rare and invaluable eyewitness narrative, A Journey to Cooper's Creek restores a missing voice to the Burke & Wills story. Beckler's account blends scientific curiosity with candid critique, offering a humane and sharply observed portrait of one of Australia's most myth-laden expeditions. Essential reading for collectors of exploration history, desert travel narratives, and primary-source accounts of 19th‑century Australia. Hard cover with dust jacket. Clean unmarked pages. Map inside rear cover. Very nice copy.…

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Pp. Condition: Gut. 403 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm Schönes, ordentliches, gutes Exemplar. Mit Originalschutzumschlag. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag, 8°, 403 S., mit zahlr., teils farbigen Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln, eingeleitet und erläutert von Johannes H. Voigt, Band 9 der Reihe »Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten« Guter Zustand.

Hardcover. Condition: ausreichend. Opbd., 403 Seiten, OSU 8°, gut erhalten, Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten Band 9.

1st edition, No. 13 in the Miegunyah Press series. Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz. Editor's Preface and Introduction by Stephen Jeffries. XLV, 205 PP with 9 drawings & 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 2 b/w and 2 colour illustrations and 1 large folded map tipped in on rear endpaper. Hard covers, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. 24.2 x 15.5. …

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. (Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten). 403 Seiten. Mit Schutzumschlag. Noch verschweißtes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

8°. 403 S., zahlreiche sw-Abbildungen, Bibliographie, Pappband (gut erhalten) (=Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten ; Bd. 9) Hermann Beckler bietet in seinen hier erstmals veröffentlichten Briefen an seinen Bruder Karl um die Mitte des 19. Jhrs. die bislang lebendigste Schilderung Australiens in deutscher Sprache, zu einer Zeit also, in der der "fünfte Kontinent" nur in einer viermonatigen Segelschiffsreise zu erreichen war. Sie zeichnet sich durch eine realistische und unbefangene Sichtweise aus, in der Deutsches und Europäisches vielfach mit Australischem in Beziehung gesetzt und verglichen wird.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1855 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 23 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 23.…

Melbourne University Press: 1993. 8vo. Orig. boards. Dustjacket. (xlv, 206pp.). Illustrated. NOTE: Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the Burke and Wills Expedition, offers insights into the causes of the expeditions failure.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from [nach 1830] edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 32.…

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1855 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 24.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time. This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failurea "an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…