Auction: January 23, 2022

Lot #288: Alexander von Humboldt "Cosmos" and "Views of Nature" Book Collection

(6) volumes comprising early English translations published by Henry G. Bohn, London 1850-1860, including (5) volume "Cosmos" and "Views of Nature: or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation"; uniformly half-bound calf over marbled boards, all edges and end-papers marbled; "Views" having a color frontispiece; together with Ovid's "Epistolarum Heroidum Liber" published by Bonwick, Nicolson and Newborough, London, 1702 having full paneled calf binding