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Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique. Par Al. de Humboldt.
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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von, baron (1769--1859)
Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique. Par Al. de Humboldt.
A Paris chez F. Schoell, 1810.
[4], XVI, 350 p., engr. dedic., 69 [i.e. 68] pl. : tables; 55.8 cm. (2º)
With a calligraphic dedication by Humboldt and his co-author Aimé-Bonpland to Ennio Quirino Visconti. Forms part 1, section 2 of the Voyage aux régions équatoriales du nouveau continent fait dans les années 1799 à 1804 par A. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland, which in its entirety consists of thirty folio and quarto volumes published between 1805 and 1834, and comprises a number of subordinate works. Plates 8--9 are impressed on a single leaf; pl. 25 is double page. Some of the plates have aquatint shading (of which pl.10, 16, 35 and 51 are printed in bistre), and pl. 12--14, 25--8, 33--4, 36--8, 41--2, 44--8, 52--3, 55--7, 60 and 63 are hand-coloured.
Copy Notes Purchased from T. & W. Boone for 18s. on 30 April 1825. (Spiers Box).
Binding C19th goatskin, blind triple-ruled borders and floral corner ornaments, gilt-tooled dentelles, gilt-lettered spine, gilt edges. 3s. 10d. paid to T. & W. Boone for binding 'Imperial folio. Russia Gilt Leaves' at time of purchase, 30 April 1825. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 2499
Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique. Par Al. de Humboldt.
A Paris chez F. Schoell, 1810.
[4], XVI, 350 p., engr. dedic., 69 [i.e. 68] pl. : tables; 55.8 cm. (2º)
With a calligraphic dedication by Humboldt and his co-author Aimé-Bonpland to Ennio Quirino Visconti. Forms part 1, section 2 of the Voyage aux régions équatoriales du nouveau continent fait dans les années 1799 à 1804 par A. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland, which in its entirety consists of thirty folio and quarto volumes published between 1805 and 1834, and comprises a number of subordinate works. Plates 8--9 are impressed on a single leaf; pl. 25 is double page. Some of the plates have aquatint shading (of which pl.10, 16, 35 and 51 are printed in bistre), and pl. 12--14, 25--8, 33--4, 36--8, 41--2, 44--8, 52--3, 55--7, 60 and 63 are hand-coloured.
Copy Notes Purchased from T. & W. Boone for 18s. on 30 April 1825. (Spiers Box).
Binding C19th goatskin, blind triple-ruled borders and floral corner ornaments, gilt-tooled dentelles, gilt-lettered spine, gilt edges. 3s. 10d. paid to T. & W. Boone for binding 'Imperial folio. Russia Gilt Leaves' at time of purchase, 30 April 1825. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 2499