Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
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Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
（Cambridge library collection, . Latin American studies）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
- v. 2 : pbk
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Essai politique sur le royoume de la Nouvelle Espagne
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : I. Riley, 1811
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Several of his works were in the library aboard the Beagle, including the multi-volume Personal Narrative of Travels, two books on geology and Tableaux de la nature (all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Darwin's copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's Political Essay (originally published in French earlier that year) is inscribed 'Buenos Ayres', suggesting he acquired it there in 1832-3, without its accompanying atlas (forthcoming). Humboldt had spent a year in Mexico in 1803-4, and was struck by its 'civilization' as compared to regions of South America that he had visited earlier on his expedition. Volume 2 of his account contains information about the population, language and key features of each district of Mexico, and about the country's agriculture.
Table of Contents
Book IV. State of the Agriculture of New Spain: 9. Vegetable productions of the Mexican territory.
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