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Alexander von Humboldt's Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents.3 vol. in one book, 1st ed., 1861, Stiuttgart, in German - Alexander von Humboldt's Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents.3 vol. in one book, 1st ed., 1861, Stiuttgart, in German In deutscher Bearbeitung von Hermann Hauff. Nach der Anordnung und unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers. Einzige von A. v. Humboldt anerkannte Ausgabe in deutscher Sprache. Erster Band. Zweiter Band. Dritter Band. Stuttgart J G Cotta'scher Verlag, 1861. 3 Teile in einem Band; [1] XVI 260 Seiten; [2] (2) 300 Seiten; [3] (2) 242 Seiten. Half leather hard cover, gold lettering to spine; size: 16 x 12 cm. Condition: wear and rubbing to cover; foxing stains to most of pages. Weight: 500 gr Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.[5] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline