Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804. With Maps, Plans, Chumboldt, Alexander De and Aime Bonpland. Translated by Helen Maria Williams. Published by Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, W. Pope, Printer, 67 Chancery Lane, London, 1814-1829. Second edition. Volume 1-7 (Volumes 5 and 6 in two parts for a total of 9 books). Rebound in burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles, red edges. 8vo up to 9½” tall. Library stamps to title pages with library’s small blind stamp to upper corners of pages. Volume 1 has heavy foxing to title page; the remaining volumes have very little to no markings. Tightly bound with several uncut pages; later volumes appear unread. Maps and fold outs have little to moderate foxing.
Vol 1(1814) 289pp. with map to free endpaper; Vol 2 (1814)299pp. with tables; Vol 3 (1818) 571pp. with 3 fold-out maps and 3 fold-out cross geological cross sections. Vol 4 (1819) 572pp. Vol 5 (1821) Part I 572pp., Vol 5 Part II 573-855pp, with errata statement and 3 page note by Chumboldt. Vol 6 (1826) Part 1 386pp, with charts on populations and alphabetical listing of tribes; publisher ads. Vol 5 Part II 387-845 with fold out ‘Sketch of a Geognostic View of South America on the north of the river of the Amazons’. Vol 7 (1829) 482pp.
Alexander von Humboldt’s account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the second edition in English.
