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Researches Concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America

Published 1814
Author Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von
Translator Williams, Helen Maria
Title Researches Concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions & Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras! Written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, & Translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.
Publisher’s imprint London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; J. Murray, & H. Colburn. 1814.
Printer’s colophon W. Pople, Printer, 67, Chancery Lane, London.
Format 8o; 2 vols: pp. iv. 411(I), 324(II); plates
Sources Leask; NSTC
Copy inspected IA Getty, vol. 1; IA Harv, vol. 2
Notes

  1. T.p. engraving: ‘View of Cotopaxi’(I), ‘Detached Mass of the Pyramid of Cholula’(II).

  2. IA n.: Translation of ‘Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de L'Amérique,’ which forms ‘1. ptie. 2. section’ of ‘Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland.’

  3. IA n.: Indexes (v. 2, pp. [257]-324) refer to the volumes as ‘volumes XIII and XIV’; signatures and plates also refer to vol. XIII and XIV, indicating that the ‘Researches’ bore those volume numbers in a series of translations of Humboldt’s works issued by Longmans.

  4. Quarterly Rev., 15 (July 1816): 440-68.
Genre Narrative
BTW record no. BTW1261
Region South America

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