HUMBOLDT ALEXANDER VON Researches Concerning the Institution

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HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON. Researches Concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America. 19 plates, 5 of them colored, plus engraved illustrated title pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; minor foxing, catalogue description tipped to front free endpaper, lacking the final leaf (the plate list). London, 1814

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first english edition. "Every class of Aztec and Peruvian antiquities receives in this work the clearest philosophical analysis"--Field 740. Palau 116984; Sabin 33751.