Shelfmark
CS.1421.01 - CS.1421.05
Author
Title
Kosmos : Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung / von Alexander von Humboldt.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Stuttgart und Tübingen : J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1845-1862.
Physical description
5 v. : tables ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
Imprint dates: 1. Bd.: 1845 ; 2. Bd.: 1847 ; 3. Bd.: 1850 ; 4. Bd.: 1858 ; 5. Bd.: 1863.
Note
Pagination: 1. Bd.: XVI, 493, [1] p. ; 2. Bd.: [2], 544, [2] p. ; Bd. 3.: [2], 644 p., [1] fold. leaf of tables ; 4. Bd.: [2], 649, [1] p. ; 5. Bd.: [2], 1297, [1] p.
Note
Fifth volume completed from Humboldt's notes and published posthumously.
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation by Lord Rosebery on front pastedown; 20th century red and black booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
Contemporary English calf; blind broken fillet within gilt double fillet borders with small gilt floral corner ornament; gilt-tooled spine with foliate and floral ornaments in compartments formed by five gilt-tooled false bands; brown leather spine labels in second and third compartments, lettered in gilt; marbled edges to match the endpapers; binder's stamps of Nutt, Cambridge or W. Nutt.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark on lobed circular spien labels: G N 2.
Subject
Science History.
Subject
Cosmology.
Subject
Astronomy.
Subject
Physical geography.
Added entry--name
Cotta, Johann Georg, 1796 - 1863 publisher.
Added entry--name
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 1847 - 1929 Earl of donor.
Added entry--place
Germany Stuttgart.
Added entry--place
Germany Tübingen.
Language code
ger
Identifier
B53972