HUMBOLDT & BONPLAND. Personal Narrative -- Researches -- Life of...Humboldt. London, 1829, 1873. 3 works, 1ST EDITIONS, UNIFORMLY BOUND
3 works uniformly bound, together 11 volumes, comprising: Narrative 7 volumes; Researches 2 volumes; Life 2 volumes; all 8vo (11 x 128 mm). Narrative: 8 engraved folding maps and charts; Researches: 2 engraved vignette title-pages, 20 engraved plates (2 on one leaf, 4 hand-colored); Life: Half-title. 3 engraved portraits. Uniformly bound in early 20th-century maroon half-calf, marbled boards. Provenance: John Jay Paul (bookplates); Jose M. Rodriguez (bookplates).A UNIFORMLY BOUND SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH of the Humboldt's Personal Narrative and Researches, and Bruhns' Life. Inserted is an early 4-page carbon copy of a typed thorough collation and bibliographic description in Spanish of these works and of the Biography edited by Bruhns. Cox II, p. 288 (Personal Narrative); Hill, p. 150; Palau 117017 & 116984; Sabin, 33770 & 33751.
