BONPLAND, AIMÉ JACQUES ALEXANDRE.

Portrait, by Ernst Hader, pinxit, photographed by Sophus Williams.

Berlin, Phot.u. Verlag Sophus Williams, 1882. Carte de visite, original photographic print, albumen print, 10,7 x 6,8 cm, with his in reproduction printed signature. Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (22 August 1773 - 4 May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist. - Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle, a coastal city in France. After serving as a surgeon in the French army, and studying under J. N. Corvisart at Paris, he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt during five years of travel in Mexico, Colombia and the districts bordering on the Orinoco and Amazon rivers. In these explorations he collected and classified about 60 000 plants that were, until then, mostly unknown in Europe. He later described his finds in Plantes equinoxiales (Paris, 1808-1816). A semi-fictional account of these travels is to be found in Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (also published in English as Measuring the World: A Novel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway). - On returning to Paris he received a pension and the superintendence of the gardens at Malmaison, and published Monographie des Melastomes (1806), and Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre (1813). In 1816 he set out, taking with him various European plants, for Buenos Aires, where he was elected professor of natural history, an office which he soon left in order to explore central South America. While journeying to Bolivia he was arrested in 1821, by command of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the dictator of Paraguay, who detained him until 1831. - On regaining liberty he resided at San Borga in the province of Corrientes, Argentina until his removal in 1853 to Santa Ana, in Misiones, today a small town called "Bonpland" in his honor, close to Restauracion where he died. - Bonpland Street in the ritzy Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo Hollywood lies among streets named after Charles Darwin, Robert FitzRoy and Alexander von Humboldt. Many animals and plants are also named in his honor, including the squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi and the orchid Ornithocephalus bonplandi. - The lunar crater Bonpland is named after him. Also Pico Bonpland in the Venezuelan Andes is named to his honor, although he never visited the Venezuelan Andes. (Wikipedia).

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Book number: 49600

Keywords: france

[HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER & BONPLAND, AIMÉ JACQUES ALEXANDRE] / DELAMTHÉRIE, JEAN CLAUDE:

Herrarne von Humboldts och Bonplands resa till wändkretsarne åren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 och 1804. Ett utdrag ur deras memoirer. Örebro, Nils Magnus Lindh, 1808.

Small 8vo. Pp. 63. Contemporary half calf, rubbed and spine restored. Old signature and annotations on front paste down. A Swedish abridgment of Delametherie's "Notice d'un voyage aux tropiques, exécuté par M.M. Humboldt et Bonpland ... " Translated from the German by E.W. Djurström. Scarce.

-- Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books

Book number: 100290

Catalogue: South America

Keywords: South America, south america, smerika, americana, travel, exploration

HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON. BONPLAND, AIME.

Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804. Witten in French by Alexander Von Humboldt. Translated and Edited by Thomasina Ross. in Three Volumes.

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1895. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Three volumes with green cloth boards and gilt titles to spine; Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books.. Near Fine; Small damp stain to front paste-down on volume 1. Spines rubbed. Cloth lightly soiled in places..

-- Gothica Books Ltd.

Book number: 2768

HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON & BONPLAND, AIME,

Voyage aux régions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent. Sixième partie, section II: Monographie des Melastomacées. Tome 1: Melastomes. Toutes les plantes de cet ordre recueillies jusqu'à ce jour, et notamment au Mexique, dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle-Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du Rio-Negro, de l'Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones.

Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1970. (Reprint of the Paris ed., 1816). Large folio. (XI)+VI+142+(3) pp. With 60 col. facs. plates. Hardcover. Or. half morocco, spine gilt, marbled boards. VG/--.
¶ 200 copies printed, this copy unnumbered.

-- Charbo's Antiquariaat

Book number: 59486

Catalogue: Caribbean

Keywords: Travel exploration journals accounts Natural flora botany plants Mexico Cuba Caribbean North Andean States South America Andes Mountains Amazon River, South America humboldt, alexander von bonpland, aime 1816 - 1816

HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON & BONPLAND, AIME,

Voyage aux régions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent. Sixième partie, section I: Plantes équioxiales. Recueillies au Mexique, dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle-Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du Rio-Negro, de l'Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones.

Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-1973. (Reprint of the Paris ed., 1808-1809). 2 vols. Large folio. (XIII)+VII+(I)+234;(XI)+191 pp. With 140 b/w facs. plates. Hardcover. Or. uniform half morocco, spines gilt, marbled boards. VG/--.
¶ 200 copies printed, this copy unnumbered.

-- Charbo's Antiquariaat

Book number: 59485

Catalogue: Caribbean

Keywords: Travel exploration journals accounts Natural flora botany plants Mexico Cuba Caribbean North Andean States South America Andes Mountains Amazon River, South America humboldt, alexander von bonpland, aime 1808 - 1809