| Referencia: | 7732 |
| Año: | 1887 |
| Lugar de edición: | Rio de Janeiro / Leipzig |
Versuch einer Kulturkarte von Brasilien mit besonderer Berüchsichtigung des Haupyvorkommens Spontaner Erzeugnisse [Map of Brazil]
Uncommon agriculture map of Brazil, drawn in Rio de Janeiro in 1883 and published in 1887 in Leipzig. It details the different crops cultivated in Brazil (corn, beans, coffee, sugarcane, cotton, etc.). It also highlights the potential of the rubber trees in the Amazon forest, in the first years of the infamous rubber fever. The author, Rudolph Alexander Hehl, was a German geologist and engineer who migrated to Brazil in 1859, where he worked in the railway sector. This map was published to illustrate an article titled "Über die vegetabilischen Schätze Brasiliens und seine Bodenkultur" (On the vegetable wealth of Brazil and its land cultivation), published in Nova Acta, the review of the German Academia Leopoldina. The article was much appreciated, and Hehl was honored with a gold medal for it during the South American Exhibition of Berlin in 1886. Hehl's work later fell largely into oblivion, and the present map remains largely unknown. Rarity: extremely rare in the market, with no record in OCLC / WorldCat.
Sin Encuadernar
Good (bueno)
