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353 pp with index, hardbound, with 17 illustrations., 5 text maps and 11 coloured maps, Author’s preface is dated 1890, decorated cloth binding “Adventures of Great Explorers”. 1st American edition, published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, as part of their series “Adventures of Great Explorers”. All maps show darker colouring than the British edition which also does not boast the pictorial full cloth cover. The colour maps range from world maps depicting Magellan’s circumnavigation to Behaim and Schoener Globes, etc.

![Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der, Wissenschaften . XXXVI. Band (36th vol] No.14, Sitzung vom 19. Mai 1859. Schreiben an Alexander von Humboldt Haidinger, M.W. : Zwei Mittheilungen: 1) von Herrn k.k. Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf Zur Verteilung der Winde auf der Oberfläche der Erde. 2) von Herrn Lieutenant M.F. Maury, U.S.N. in Washington Herrn k.k. Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/jo11968-von-Hochstetter-1859-Sitzungsberichte-front-600x750.webp)

