Friedrich Heinrich Alexander V Humboldt

Selections from the Works of the Baron De Humboldt Relating to the Climate, Inhabitants, Productions, and Mines of Mexico. with Notes [and an Introduc Friedrich Heinrich Alexander V Humboldt

Publisher Marketing: Title: Selections from the works of the Baron de Humboldt relating to the Climate, Inhabitants, Productions, and Mines of Mexico. With notes [and an introduction] by J. Taylor. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Baron; Taylor, John; 1824. 8 . 1050.k.15. Contributor Bio:  Taylor, John John Taylor is the author of Paths to Contemporary French Literature (volumes 1-3) and Into the Heart of European Poetry. He is the author of books of fiction, short prose, and poetry. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement and authors the "Poetry Today" column in the Antioch Review.