Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne

by Alexander von Humboldt

$2,850 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

Paris: Chez F. Schoell, 1811. First octavo edition. With more extensive text than the quarto edition before it. Five octavo volumes 8 1/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 205 x 125 mm . Volume I with large folding map and Volume II with an engraved folding plan. Complete.Uniformly bound in full contemporary cat's paw calf. Boards tooled in gilt. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Spines with two calf spine labels each. Labels

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