HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH WILHELM HEINRICH ALEXANDER, Baron von and AIMÈ JACQUES ALEXANDRE BONPLAND. [Voyage aux régions equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804]. Première Partie, Relation Historique. Atlas Pittoresque. Vues des Cordillères, et Monumens des Peuples Indigènes de l'Amerique. Paris : F. Schoell 1810 [-1814]. One vol. bound in 2 (as often), atlas folio, 575 x 415 mm., slightly later English red half morocco gilt and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, some slight and mostly marginal foxing, occasional offsetting, plate 53 foxed. FIRST EDITION. 3 half-title leaves, 2 title leaves (presumably for binding text and plates separately), engraved dedication to Ennius Quirinus Visconti, 16-page introduction dated April 1813 and 69 engraved, etched and aquatint plates on 68 sheets (nos. 8 and 9 on one sheet), 25 of them handcolored or with printed color (one of them, no. 25 a double-page view of Chimborazo, no. 44 partly colored), 5 of them printed in sepia, the rest plain, mostly engraved by Bouquet in Paris or by Arnold in Berlin after Marchais's rendering of drawings made during the expedition. Brunet III, 373-4; Sabin 33754. Provenance : The Earl of Leigh, armorial bookplate. (2)
HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH WILHELM HEINRICH ALEXANDER, Baron von and AIMÈ JACQUES ALEXANDRE BONPLAND. [Voyage aux régions equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804]. Première Partie, Relation Historique. Atlas Pittoresque. Vues des Cordillères, et Monumens des Peuples Indigènes de l'Amerique. Paris : F. Schoell 1810 [-1814]. One vol. bound in 2 (as often), atlas folio, 575 x 415 mm., slightly later English red half morocco gilt and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, some slight and mostly marginal foxing, occasional offsetting, plate 53 foxed. FIRST EDITION. 3 half-title leaves, 2 title leaves (presumably for binding text and plates separately), engraved dedication to Ennius Quirinus Visconti, 16-page introduction dated April 1813 and 69 engraved, etched and aquatint plates on 68 sheets (nos. 8 and 9 on one sheet), 25 of them handcolored or with printed color (one of them, no. 25 a double-page view of Chimborazo, no. 44 partly colored), 5 of them printed in sepia, the rest plain, mostly engraved by Bouquet in Paris or by Arnold in Berlin after Marchais's rendering of drawings made during the expedition. Brunet III, 373-4; Sabin 33754. Provenance : The Earl of Leigh, armorial bookplate. (2)
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