Life of Alexander von Humboldt. Compiled

by J. Lowenberg, Robert Ave-Lallemant, and Alfred Dove; Edited by Professor Karl Bruhns; Translated from the German by Jane and Caroline Lassell by Karl Bruhns

$795 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. 2 vols, 8vo, xxiii, 412; vii, 446 pp. Engraved portrait frontispieces and one further portrait plate in vol. 2. Half red polished calf, marbled boards and edges, gilt-panelled backstrips slightly faded , green labels. A very good set, with Humboldt's card and a modern postage stamp in vol. 1. Bookplate of William E. Stuart in each volume. § First edition in English, translated by the daughters of the eminent

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