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MAXIMILIAN ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince. Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817. Frankfurt a. M.: Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1820 [-1821].
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MAXIMILIAN ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince. Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817. Frankfurt a. M.: Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1820 [-1821].
3 vols.: 2 vols., 4to, 334 x 264 mm. (13 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.), and atlas vol., oblong folio, 352 x 475 mm. (13 7/8 x 18 11/16 in.), contemporary half sheep, marbled paper boards with blind roll-tooled borders, green morocco lettering-pieces, green sprinkled edges, inner hinges cracked, short tear at mount of folding map of Brazil just entering image, plate 12 in atlas volume darkened, occasional mostly marginal light spotting or foxing.
FIRST EDITION, issue with the 19 engraved chapter vignettes printed on separate leaves (printed with the text in the regular issue), atlas volume with 22 plates and 3 maps (one folding), of which 4 plates hand-colored.
Borba de Moraes, p. 544; Palau 158782; Sabin 47018.
Prince Maximilian's expedition to Brazil with the naturalists Georg Freyreiss and Friedrich Sellow was "from a scientific point of view...one of the most profitable of the nineteenth century. The enormous zoological collections which were assembled are today in the American Museum of Natural History of New York, acquired in 1872... When the work first appeared copies were sold for one thousand francs, an extravagant sum at that time"--Borba de Moraes.
Provenance: Fürstliche Bibliothek Donaueschingen, ink stamps on versos of titles. (3)
3 vols.: 2 vols., 4to, 334 x 264 mm. (13 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.), and atlas vol., oblong folio, 352 x 475 mm. (13 7/8 x 18 11/16 in.), contemporary half sheep, marbled paper boards with blind roll-tooled borders, green morocco lettering-pieces, green sprinkled edges, inner hinges cracked, short tear at mount of folding map of Brazil just entering image, plate 12 in atlas volume darkened, occasional mostly marginal light spotting or foxing.
FIRST EDITION, issue with the 19 engraved chapter vignettes printed on separate leaves (printed with the text in the regular issue), atlas volume with 22 plates and 3 maps (one folding), of which 4 plates hand-colored.
Borba de Moraes, p. 544; Palau 158782; Sabin 47018.
Prince Maximilian's expedition to Brazil with the naturalists Georg Freyreiss and Friedrich Sellow was "from a scientific point of view...one of the most profitable of the nineteenth century. The enormous zoological collections which were assembled are today in the American Museum of Natural History of New York, acquired in 1872... When the work first appeared copies were sold for one thousand francs, an extravagant sum at that time"--Borba de Moraes.
Provenance: Fürstliche Bibliothek Donaueschingen, ink stamps on versos of titles. (3)