Atlas géographique et physique du Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, : fondé sur des observations astronomiques, des mesures trigonométriques et des nivellemens barométriques. / Par Al. de Humboldt.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1811
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029881
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 4 p.,20 [i.e. 18] leaves of plates (some folded, some hand-coloured) ; fol. Provenance: no marks of provenance. Previous owner’s bookplate has been removed. Binding: nineteenth-century quarter polished calf and pink paste paper over boards, gilt spine tooling, red spine label, remains of yellow painted edges.
Makers and roles
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), cartographer