Descrizione

Prima edizione inglese. Cm.18,5x11,5. Pg.XXX, 452, 32. Legatura allentata in tela editoriale, con titoli in oro al dorso e impressioni alla coperta. Mancanza al capitello superiore. Antiporta a colori, con raffigurazione del Monte Chimborazo in Ecuador, e facsimile fuori testo. Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr Von Humboldt (Berlino, 1769-1859), fratello dell'erudito Wilhelm, svolse attività di esploratore e fu naturalista e scienziato di vasta rinomanza. "Views of Nature", or "Ansichten der Natur", was Humboldt’s best-known and most influential work—and his personal favorite. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces of nature writing—they were cited by Thoreau as a model for his own work—the book’s extensive endnotes incorporate some of Humboldt’s most beautiful prose and mature thinking on vegetation structure, its origins in climate patterns, and its implications for the arts. Written for both a literary and a scientific audience, "Views of Nature" was translated into English (twice), Spanish, and French in the nineteenth century, and it was read widely in Europe and the Americas" (dal sito della University of Chicago Press). Humboldt giunse la prima volta in Italia nel 1795. Codice libreria 163627.