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Humboldt, Alexander von; Sitios de las Cordilleras y Monumentos de los Pueblo Indigenas de America por Alejandro de Humboldt. Traducción de Bernardo Giner. Madrid… 1878. Octavo, pp. viii, 439, illustrated.
The work is complete and in the original calf with gilt spine titles and marbled end sheets. The binding is tight and clean, spine titles bright. The text is very clean and bright. In very good condition.
Humboldt's (1769-1859) objective in his original work on the Cordilleras and the indigenous people of the region was to bring together everything that was related to the origin and early progress of art among the inhabitants in the Cordilleras. In 1878, a condensed Spanish edition by Bernardo Giner, based on the French edition.
