ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859)
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1851. 2 volumes, oblong 4° (272 x 335mm). 39 hand-coloured lithographic maps and charts (plus a duplicate of plate 6) and 3 steel-engraved plates each with multiple images, text volume in triple columns. (Some light spotting throughout both vols, first 36pp of text volume cockled.) Contemporary European-style green half-calf, spines gilt, marbled boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Swiss ownership signature to front free endpapers, paper library label to spines. 'ONE OF THE LAST REALLY COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL SURVEYS EVER TO BE ATTEMPTED' ( PMM ). The Atlas , with plates by Traucott Bromme, was published as a companion volume to Humboldt's Kosmos , a survey of contemporary knowledge of the physical world, which occupied him for the last three decades of his life. Norman 1112; PMM 320.
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859)
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1851. 2 volumes, oblong 4° (272 x 335mm). 39 hand-coloured lithographic maps and charts (plus a duplicate of plate 6) and 3 steel-engraved plates each with multiple images, text volume in triple columns. (Some light spotting throughout both vols, first 36pp of text volume cockled.) Contemporary European-style green half-calf, spines gilt, marbled boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Swiss ownership signature to front free endpapers, paper library label to spines. 'ONE OF THE LAST REALLY COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL SURVEYS EVER TO BE ATTEMPTED' ( PMM ). The Atlas , with plates by Traucott Bromme, was published as a companion volume to Humboldt's Kosmos , a survey of contemporary knowledge of the physical world, which occupied him for the last three decades of his life. Norman 1112; PMM 320.
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