Author: De Vylder, Gustav. (Edited & translated by Ione & Jalmar Rudner).
Title: The Journal of Gustaf de Vylder. Naturalist in South Western Africa 1873-1875. Translated from the Original Swedish and Edited By Ione & Jalmar Rudner.
Description: Van Riebeeck Society Second Series No.28 Cape Town 1998 (for 1997). Gilt on chocolate cloth boards. 292pp 8vo. tipped-in cold.frontis. illustrated b/w sketches, photograph of author, map. 0.6kg No inscriptions. A Fine copy in dustwrapper (spine very lightly faded, as often). ISBN: 9780958411240 De Vylder was a Swedish naturalist who, after a year's stay in Cape Town, journeyed through present-day Nambia collecting insects and other natural-history specimensfpr institutions in his own country. This was before the German occupation and when the European presence was restricted to a few missionaries, traders, and travellers.

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