Resultados de búsqueda: personal narrative of travels to the de alexander de humboldt

London, England: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row, 1826. Early English Edition. Leather-bound. Fair Only. Octavo. Original but quite worn half-calf, over plain boards, the front of which is detached but present. Front label (scratched, stained and torn) reads: " I. Forester's Elgin Circulating Library/Instituted in the Year 1789". Deckled foredge and bottom edge. Previous owner's names to preliminary pages. Missing Foldout, as originally issued. 390 pp. Light age-tanning to pages, and a few pages stained. Originally in French, here translated by Helen Maria Williams.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, W. Pope, Printer, 67 Chancery Lane, 1819-1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 8 books in 5 volumes, of what I believe should be a 7 volume set. Vol. 1: Stated 3rd edition, 1822. Contains Books I & II, pp. xii, li, 293, [1] - 294. Frontispiece map, tables; Vol. 2: Stated 2nd edition, 1822. Title-page reads Vol. III. Contains Books III & IV, pp. [iv], 575 (continuous pagination), tables, 5 engraved folding maps at rear; Vol. 3: No edition statement, 1819. Title-page reads Vol. IV. Contains Books V, VI, and first chapter of VII, pp. [iv], 573, [2] - publ. adverts. (continuous pagination), ; Vol. 4: No edition statement, 1821. Title-page reads Vol. V. Contains continuation of Book VII, and first chapter of Book VIII, (chapter 23). Chapter 24, although listed in the Contents, was given a separate volume (see Vol. 5 below), and the first page was laminated to the last page, hiding the error, pp. [iii], 501; Vol. 5: No edition… Leer más