Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Title:: Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.
Published / Created:: A Paris : Chez F. Schoell, rue des Fossé́s-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, no. 29, 1810 [that is, 1813?]
[Paris] : De l'imprimerie de J.H. Stône
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (xvi, 350 pages, 69 leaves of plates) : 69 illustrations (engraving, aquatint, some color) ; 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Related Content:: View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:9768346
Classification:: Books
Notes:: This volume constituted the first part, second section of Humboldt's thirty-volume work, Voyage aux regions equinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait dans les années 1799 à 1804.
Subject Terms:: Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities. | Mexico -- Antiquities. | Peru -- Antiquities. | Mexico -- Description and travel. | Peru -- Description and travel. | Andes -- Antiquities. | Indians of South America -- Andes -- Antiquities. | Visconti, Ennio Quirino, 1751–1818 -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:: Aquatints. | Etchings. | Travel literature. | Color printing (Printing) | Hand coloring. | Authors' presentation copies.
Contributors:: Bonpland, Aimé, 1773–1858. | Schoell, Frédéric, 1766–1833, publisher. | Stone, John Hurford, 1763–1818, printer. | Bouquet, Louis, 1765–1814, engraver. | Arnold, Friedrich, engraver.