Researches, concerning the institutions and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / Written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

  • Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
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1814
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Researches, concerning the institutions and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / Written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. Pt 1. English

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London : Longman, etc., Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, J. Murray & H. Colburn, 1814.

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2 volumes, 20 plates (part colour), on 19 leaves : engr. t.ps ; (8vo)

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"Translation of "Vues des Cordillères ett monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique," which forms "1. ptie. 2 section" of "Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland"
Indexes (v. 2, p. [257]-324) refer to the vollmes as "volumes XIII and XIV"; signatures and plates also refer to vol. XIII and XIV, indicating that the "Researches" bore those volume numbers in a series of translations of Humboldt's works issued by Longmans.

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    EPB/B/29677.v1

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    EPB/B/29677.v2

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