BELGIUM ~ Zoological Illustration ~

...Vintage zoological illustration from an old English natural history book from the early 1900s by Hermann Wagner... with ugly looking pink crab spider (common found in Belgium) stamp😁(even though I'm not afraid of spiders🕷️) and nice spider web🕸️ first day postmark! Thanks Johan!【ツ】

Hermann Wagner, (1840 - 1929) was a German geographer and cartographer. Wagner rendered outstanding services to the methodology and expansion of geography.

He received his education at the Universities of Göttingen and Erlangen, and from 1864 to 1876, taught classes in mathematics and natural history at the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha. 

 

Stamps:

Spider Splendor

(Issued 28-08-2023)