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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859)
Researches, concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America ... translated into English by Helen Maria Williams, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, J. Murray & H. Colburn, 1814. 2 volumes. 8° (211 x 128mm.). 2 engraved titles and 20 plates on 19 sheets, 5 hand-coloured. (A few plates shaved, occasional light spotting and offsetting). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (rubbed and scuffed with loss to foot of spine of vol. one). Sabin 33751.
With von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 (London, 1814-1819, vols. I - IV only, of 6). (6)
Researches, concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America ... translated into English by Helen Maria Williams, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, J. Murray & H. Colburn, 1814. 2 volumes. 8° (211 x 128mm.). 2 engraved titles and 20 plates on 19 sheets, 5 hand-coloured. (A few plates shaved, occasional light spotting and offsetting). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (rubbed and scuffed with loss to foot of spine of vol. one). Sabin 33751.
With von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804 (London, 1814-1819, vols. I - IV only, of 6). (6)
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