May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. Engraved portrait of the author. 5 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 burgundy morocco gilt, Volume 5 front joint starting; contents toned, 19th-century institutional stamp on titles, half-titles lacking. London, 1849-1858
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first edition in english of Humboldt's magnum opus, "a complete survey of the physical sciences and their relation to each other" (PMM). DSB VI, 554; Norman 1112; Printing and the Mind of Man 320 (all citing the 1845-62 original edition in German).