Alexander von HUMBOLDT
Correspondance scientifique et littéraire recueillie, publiée et précédée d'une notice et d'une introduction par M. de la Roquette
Ducrocq|Paris 1865|14 x 22 cm|relié
First edition.
Publisher's bottle-green cloth binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind compartments, head slightly rubbed, blind fillet and interlace frames on boards, Napoleon III's coat of arms gilt at center of front board, gilt medallion depicting a crowned eagle and palms framing the inscriptions Académie de Paris and Prix du concours général at center of rear board, moiré paper doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.
Work decorated with two engraved portraits of A. de Humboldt and a facsimile of one of his letters at head, figures throughout the text.
At the end of the volume, we find a biography of Humboldt's correspondents, notes and a table.
Rare.
Publisher's bottle-green cloth binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind compartments, head slightly rubbed, blind fillet and interlace frames on boards, Napoleon III's coat of arms gilt at center of front board, gilt medallion depicting a crowned eagle and palms framing the inscriptions Académie de Paris and Prix du concours général at center of rear board, moiré paper doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.
Work decorated with two engraved portraits of A. de Humboldt and a facsimile of one of his letters at head, figures throughout the text.
At the end of the volume, we find a biography of Humboldt's correspondents, notes and a table.
Rare.
€500