Views of Nature: or Contemplations of the Sublime Phenomena of Creation Signed Books

Views of Nature: or Contemplations of the Sublime Phenomena of Creation Signed BooksLondon: Henry G. Bohn, 1850 First English edition. In the publishers original red cloth. Complete with the colored frontispiece from a sketch by Humboldt, depicting Chimborazo, and the facsimile of his handwriting. A very good to near fine copy, remarkably sound with minimal wear and no loss to the spine. The pages slightly cockled, and some foxing mainly to the preliminaries. The contents otherwise crisp and clean. An uncommonly nice example of this

A beautiful copy of the famed spy thriller

A narrative of his early life and the places and experiences that shaped him

a most impressive unrestored example

A bright example of Eco’s masterpiece

in the unclipped

A crisp example overall

and a bookseller's stamp to the rear

Harper & Brothers

with dedication to a Jacques Ourévitch

The margins of the pages showing very faint toning and foxing

Hayek - The Affluent Society would influence the counter culture movement of the 1960's

which first made Western readers aware of the devastation caused by the bomb