The Time of the Knights of the Far Seas: Collector and Patron Jind?ich Vávra
Hana Dvorakova (editor-in-chief), Petr Kostrhun (editor-in-chief), Pavel Scheufler (editor-in-chief)
Hardback Published on: 04/05/2021
Price: £32.85
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Synopsis
Photographic accounts of a 19th-century collector's travels around the globe
A naturalist, physician and noted collector, Jindrich Vávra (1831-87) gathered an impressive cache of photographs throughout the 19th century in Austria--including from two circumnavigations of the globe. This book makes available his extraordinary collection of images.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Kant
- ISBN: 9788074373176
- Number of pages: 252
- Dimensions: 236 x 216 x 28 mm
- Weight: 1134g
- Languages: English
