Alexander von Humboldt : ein biographischer Denkmal /

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Alexander von Humboldt's Reisen in Amerika und Asien : eine Darstellung seiner wichtigsten Forschungen /

Bd. 1-2. Reisen in die aequinoctial-gegenden Amerika's -- Bd. 3- 4. Reisen im europäischen und asiatischen Russland.

Briefe von Alexander von Humboldt an Varnhagen von Ense : aus den jahren 1827 bis 1858. Nebst auszügen aus Varnhagen's tagebüchern und briefen von Varnhagen und andern an Humboldt.

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The travels and researchs of Alexander von Humboldt.

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The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt; being a condensed narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia, together with analyses of his more important investigations.

Cover: The family library, 54.

The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt: being a condensed narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia:--together with analyses of his more important investigations.

Tr. of:"Voyage aux regions equinoxiales du nouveau continent."

Life of Alexander von Humboldt.

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Briefe über Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Ein commentar zu diesem werke für gebildete laien.

1. th. and 3. th., 1-2 abth.: Bearb. von Bernhard Cotta.

Gesammelte werke von Alexander von Humboldt.

Preface dates: 1808-59.

Lives of the brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William.

Each biography has also special t.-p.: Alexander von Humboldt: a biographical monument. By Professor Klencke. Tr. from the German, by Juliette Bauer; Life of William von Humboldt. Tr. and abridged from the German of Schlesier, by Juliette Bauer.

‘These changes and accessions of knowledge’: translation, scientific travel writing and modernity - Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative

A second English translation of Alexander von Humboldt's account of travel to South America, the Relation historique (1814–25), was published between 1852 and 1853. Appearing some 30 years after the first seven-volume translation (1814–29) by Helen Maria Williams, this second rendering of the Personal Narrative by Thomasina Ross was an abridged version that aimed to make Humboldt's travelogue more relevant to the mid-century reader. This translation has largely been overlooked by Humboldt scholars, despite it being a far more affordable, accessible and popular edition. I discuss here how Ross's revisions can be understood within a larger process of rereading and revision that responded to critics’ assessments of the first translation. Emphasising the status of the Personal Narrative as a text in flux, I assess how Ross modernised it to meet the demands of a new readership, recasting the image that Humboldt had constructed of himself as a travelling scientist, scientific writer and member of the international scientific community.