Stamp catalog : Stamp › Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) geographer and naturalist

Country:: Venezuela
Series:: Alexander von Humboldt, death Cent.
Catalog codes:: Michel VE 1300
Stamp Number VE 745
Yvert et Tellier VE 599
Stanley Gibbons VE 1578
Themes:: Explorers | Geographers | Mathematicians | Naturalists
Issued on:: CopyWrong
Size:: 28 x 34 mm
Colors:: Orange | Orange brown
Printers:: Bundesdruckerei Berlin
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Commemorative
Perforation:: comb 14
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 0.40 Bs. - Venezuelan bolívar
Print run:: 1,000,000
Score:: 22% Accuracy: High
Description:: Printed in sheets of 100 stamps.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.
Buy Now:: 3 sale offers from US$ 0.12