Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition
From $120.00
1979 Edition
Publisher – Melbourne University Press, Carlton, for the Library Council of Victoria
Cover is hard bound in beige. Very good condition. Contained in hard, clear plastic cover.
Dust Jacket is present, in good condition withminor shelf wear.
End Papers are intact, beige.
Preliminaries – Preface; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements.
Main Text Body – 224 pp. Fine and clean.
End Matters – Appendies I-VI; Select Bibliography; Index.
Edges are even and unworn.
Spine is tight with no gutter damage. Cream embossed lettering.
Page Structure is sound with no missing pages.
First Edition
From the dust jacket: 'Ludwig Becker, though he went with Burke and Wills in 1860, has almost been forgotten. He is remembered, if at all, as an artist and naturalist who left some sketches of the disasterous undertaking before he himself perished on the journey north. Yet his letters, reports and illustrations are of historic importance and antiquarian charm. His word and his pictures are published here for the first time, complete and unabridged.'
This is an attractive book in good condition that contains author Marjorie Tipping's discussion of Becker, 'The Life and Work of Ludwig Becker' and the collection of his drawings and water-colours 'executed during the Victorian Exploring Expedition, 1860-61' held in the State Library of Victoria. Also included are Becker's letters and reports relating to the expedition.
