Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
June 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/38
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NARRATIVES 1773-99 — continued. 2885 1799-1878: PREMIERE PARTIE: 1ERE SECTION: RevatTion Historique, Vols. I to III, Vol. III wants title, which is supplied by that of Vol. I altered (Vol. IV never published), 3 vols. atlas 4to, Paris, 1814-19 2DE SECTION: VUES DES CORDILLERES, et. Monu- mens des Peuples Indigénes de ]’Ame- rique, impl. folio, 69 large plates of Mexican Picure-writings, Hieroglyphics, Bas-reliefs, Costumes, Views, etc. many of them FINELY COLOURED ab. 1810 The greater part of the copies now in the market want from page 272 to page 350, and plates 50-69. “ Humboldt traces with the hand of a master the outline of a vast picture, future travellers can only assist in filling up.’”—Ward’s Mewico. In this work the Picture-writing of the Mexicans first received the attention and the ample treatment which are due to a literature as strange and important in the records of the New World, as that of Egypt in the Old. 3ME ET 4ME SECTIONS: EXAMEN CRITIQUE de L’HistorrE de la GEoGRAPHIE de NOUVEAU CONTI- NENT et des Progrés de l’Astronomie Nautique aux XVe at XVIe Siecles, 562 pp. ATLAS GEOGRAPHIE et PHIsYQuE du geological sections, the facsimiles of early Portulani coloured and gilt—together two vols. complete, colombier folio ib. 1814-19-34 the set as described TROISIEME PARTIE: EssAl POLITIQUE SUR LE ROYAUME DF . LA NOUVELLE ESPAGNE, 2 vols. atlas 4to.—ATLAS PHYSIQUE et GEO- GRAPHIQUE, 20 large maps, altas folio —together 3 vols. ib. 1811 At a great public meeting, held June 21, 1824, it was declared by the exe- cutive power of the Mexican Govern- | ment, that “Mr. Humboldt’s Political | Essays on New Spain contained the most complete and most accurate picture of the natural riches of the country, and that the reading of this great work has not a little contributed to reanimate the active industry of the nation, and to inspire it with confidence in its own powers,” QuATRIEME Partie: RECUEIL =b’ORSERVATIONS ASTRONO- MIQuEs, Operations Trigonometriques, ete, redigées par Ottmanns, 2 vols. atlas {4 4to, ib, 1808-10 | CinquibMe Partin: Essal SUR LA GEOGRAPHIE DES PLANTES, accompagné d’un Tableau Vhysique des Régions Equinoxiales, atlas 4to. with the large map “ Tableau Physique des Andes. “ SrxiiMe Partiz, BoranrquE : MIERE SECTION: PLANTES EQUINOXIALES recueillies au Mexique, dans l’Ile de Cuba, ete. ouvrage redigé par A. Bonpland, 2 vols. colombier folio, 144 plates 1808-9 above, together 8 vols. atlas 4to. PRE- green morocco, uncut, £30. Paris, 1805-34 Zealous, active, vigorous; imbued with
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