Bergman - Wilde Und Paradiesvögel. Eine Forschungsreise Nach Neuguinea. [translated After The Original Swedish Edn. Into German By Lothar Tobias]. [first German Edition].

Wiesbaden, E. Brockhaus, 1952. Original cloth, gilt tooled illustration on front boards, title in gilt on spine, designed by Kurt Wilhelm Blohm. 270pp. coloured frontispiece, black/white ills. after author's photographs on 24 plates with extensive captions, full-page sketch-map of the region explored, index of names, concise biographical note to author on recte of final page with publ. advertism. on verso, list of illustrations, table of contents. Results of author's [zoological] expedition 1948-1950 in the Australian madate territory of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea), region Kapauku Papuans. Research was made with regard to regional mammals, including the occurrance of birds, with i.a. notes on the local population, anthropology, life-cycle and daily life, custions and religious beliefs, society and villages, agriculture, &c. First german language edition. Copy with a four-line ms. dedication in ink, pasted at tail of f.e.p., by author, signed but undated, presented to a former high-ranking dutch civil servant in the territory, Mr. Moll, his ownerships entry at top of margin of f.e.p. Very good copy, NO dustjacket. (spine sunned).