Cosmos. Essai d'une description physique du monde. Traduit par H. Faye, un des astronomes de l'Observatoire royal de Turin. Troisième édition milanaise
Brussels: C. W. Froment, 1851. Hardcover. 8vo. XI, 409 pp. + XII, 456. 3 quarter leather over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Raised bands. A tentative physical description of the world. The author, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was one..... More