The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt: being a condensed narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia; together with analyses of his more important investigations.. By W. Macgillivray ... With a portrait of Humboldt by Horsburgh, a map of the Orinco by Bruce, and five engravings by Jackson.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1832
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3075661
Summary
Bibliographic description
424 p. : ill., map, port. ; 17cm (8vo). Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half grained, green calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine, gold lettered. Uniform with other vols. in series; series title on spine.
Makers and roles
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) William MacGillivray (1796-1852)