Author: Von Humboldt, Alexander.
Title: Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt to Varnhagen Von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With Extracts from Varnhagen's Diaries, and Letters of Varnhagen and Others to Humboldt. Translated from the Second German Edition, by Friedrich Kapp.
Description: New York: Rudd & Carleton / Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1860. 1860. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with decorations in blind on the covers. The Covers are rubbed and soiled with slight wear to the corners and edges and chipping to the head and tail of the spine. The cloth is split along the top of the joints. Though stained, new blue endpapers have replaced the originals. 407 pages plus an 8 page publisher's catalog, illustrated with a frontispiece. A fair copy.

The first American edition. Fair .

Keywords: HISTORY; LETTERS; BIOGRAPHICAL; ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; VARNHAGEN VON ENSE; DIARIES; FRIEDRICH KAPP; TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

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