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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico the extent of its surface and its political division........ by Alexander Humboldt with Physical sections and maps (no maps here present) founded on astronomical observations and trigonometrical and barometrical measurements translated from the original French by John Black published in London and printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme and Brown and H Colburn and W Blackwood and Brown and Crombie, Edinburgh 1811 (2 volumes only) 

half leather and marble paper binding over boards , spines rubbed, joints cracked, boards attached. Armorial bookplate of Alex C Renton Esq July 1825.

Volume 1 - Title page + cxiv + 289pp 
Volume 2 - Title page + 531pp (also with Lt Col Kenton to the title page) 

Both volumes very clean throughout. 

Text only volumes of this very important set. (missing the vol 3 , 4 and the atlas volume) 

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