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207 - Alexander von HUMBOLDT - Views of the Mountain Ranges and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of America
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Alexander von HUMBOLDT - Views of the Mountain Ranges and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of America Published by Bourgeois-Maze, Paris, n.d. [1816] - A fine illustrated 8vo edition featuring 19 very attractive engraved plates, 7 of which are colored. Both published volumes are complete; period half-basane bindings with smooth, decorated spines; minor scuffing; spines slightly browned; and old labels on the head blocks. A beautiful, fresh copy with very few foxing spots. The author was a Prussian naturalist, geographer, and explorer known particularly for his work on Mexico and Latin America. 8vo, 392 pp.; 411 pp. (1 pp.) Provenance: Label of the Milanese bookseller and publisher Ulrico Hoepli on the half-title page
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