RESA I KAPLANDET

åren 1853-1855.

Jagt- och naturbilder ur J.F. Victorins bref och dagböcker af J.W. Grill

First edition: 160 pages, coloured lithographic frontispiece, 8 colour lithographic plates, uncut edges, rebound in tan cloth retaining the front and back pictorial paper wrappers, a very good copy.

Johan Fredrik Victorin (24 February 1831 Kvarns Bruk, Kristberg, Sweden - 3 November 1855 Kvarns Bruk, Kristberg) was a noted Swedish zoologist and explorer in South Africa.
Victorin's collection from the Cape was housed in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences which became the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Victorin's notes on his collections at the Cape were edited by J.W. Grill and published as "Zoologiska Anteckningar" in the "Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science". Two new bird descriptions by Carl Jakob Sundevall were included in this paper and one of them was named Bradypterus victorini (now Cryptillas victorini, Victorin's Warbler).

Grill also published a book in 1863 compiled from Victorin's letters and diaries, "J.F. Victorins resa i Kaplandet åren 1853-1855".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Fredrik_Victorin