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Auction archive: Lot number 14

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung , Stuttgart and Tübingen, J.G. Gotta, 1845-62 [atlas: Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1861], 5 volumes in 6 and atlas volume, 8° and 4°, FI...

Auction 02.07.1994
2 Jul 1994
Estimate
£200 - £400
ca. US$309 - US$618
Price realised:
£440
ca. US$680
Auction archive: Lot number 14

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung , Stuttgart and Tübingen, J.G. Gotta, 1845-62 [atlas: Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1861], 5 volumes in 6 and atlas volume, 8° and 4°, FI...

Auction 02.07.1994
2 Jul 1994
Estimate
£200 - £400
ca. US$309 - US$618
Price realised:
£440
ca. US$680
Beschreibung:

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung , Stuttgart and Tübingen, J.G. Gotta, 1845-62 [atlas: Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1861], 5 volumes in 6 and atlas volume, 8° and 4°, FIRST EDITION, 39 hand-coloured lithographs and 3 engraved plates by Traucott Bromme, vol. III with folding letterpress table (title to vol. I soiled, several other titles browned, library markings to titles and preliminary pages), text volumes in mixed library bindings, atlas volume in original cloth (worn) [Norman 1112; PMM 320; Sparrow 106] -- Karl BRUHNS (1830-1881). Alexander von Humboldt eine wissenschaftliche Biographie , Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1872, 3 volumes in one, 8°, 2 engraved frontispieces (library stamps), orange buckram. [Brunet III, 375] (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung , Stuttgart and Tübingen, J.G. Gotta, 1845-62 [atlas: Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1861], 5 volumes in 6 and atlas volume, 8° and 4°, FIRST EDITION, 39 hand-coloured lithographs and 3 engraved plates by Traucott Bromme, vol. III with folding letterpress table (title to vol. I soiled, several other titles browned, library markings to titles and preliminary pages), text volumes in mixed library bindings, atlas volume in original cloth (worn) [Norman 1112; PMM 320; Sparrow 106] -- Karl BRUHNS (1830-1881). Alexander von Humboldt eine wissenschaftliche Biographie , Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1872, 3 volumes in one, 8°, 2 engraved frontispieces (library stamps), orange buckram. [Brunet III, 375] (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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