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HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von & Aimé BONPLAND. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continet during the years 1799-1804 ... translated into English by Helen Maria Williams, London: Longman [etc.], 1818-29, 8°, 7 volumes in 8, 8 engraved maps and plans (most spotted, folding map in vol. VI, part 1, affected by clean but long tear, title of the same volume torn at inner margin, title to vol. VI, part 2, holed with slight loss, library marks, including title perforations and stamps to plate versos, some light creasing), volumes I-VI: contemporary marbled boards (5 volumes rebacked in blue buckram, the morocco backs of the remaining volumes very worn, inner hinges of volume VI, part I, crudely repaired), volume VII: green library cloth. [Cox II, p. 288; cf. Sabin 33770] Provenance: John N. Baly (label) & JCL; and 2 other works by Joseph Marshall and Otto von Kotzebue, each in 3 volumes. (14)