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62 - HUMBOLDT. BONPLAND, Aimé.
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HUMBOLDT. BONPLAND, Aimé. A collection of observations on zoology and comparative anatomy; made in the Atlantic Ocean… in the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1803. Paris: Levrault, Schoell and Co., Year XIII–1805. Small folio, (5)-VI-412 pp., 14 plates. Contemporary green Bradel cardboard binding, title label on fawn paper, gilt title, text on azure paper, uncut head (spine worn and split at the top with a few small tears, upper inner joint loose at the top, corners and caps rubbed, a few slight foxing spots or marginal stains on the plates, the first 3 ff. slightly soiled at the margins). A major work co-authored by the famous German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and the French botanist Aimé Bonpland. Part 2 (Zoology) of their monumental publication *Journey to the Equatorial Regions of the New Continent* (from the mouth of the Orinoco to Quito and from Cuba to the Amazon). The work is dedicated to Cuvier. Printed in Strasbourg. The text is in full-page format, uncut and printed entirely on azure laid paper. The XIV plates are printed on white vellum with serpentine borders. Black etchings for the anatomical plates of reptiles, birds, insects and amphibians, based on drawings by Humboldt or Laurillard (engraved by Bouquet). The animal illustrations, based on drawings by Humboldt, are printed in colour or partly in colour. A large, full-page colour print of an eagle. The date 1801 is engraved on several plates. A fine, large print of an eagle (engraved by Bouquet and Langlois), a monkey and three large plates of large fish, all based on drawings by Humboldt. A good copy. *A Voyage to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent* brings together the zoological observations and discoveries (mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and molluscs) made by the two scientists during their great scientific expedition to South America and the Caribbean between 1799 and 1803. Brazilian Bibliography, 139. Brunet, III, 373? Galitzin, 1111?
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