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189028938AB1890. Darjeeling c.1890. 20 cm x 15.7 cm. 2 Photographs possibly produced by british photographers Samuel Bourne & Charles Shepherd. Original Prints on paper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interestingly: People in India can see the Himalayas for the first time in 'decades' as the lockdown during the Covid-19-Pandemic eases air pollution. The view in this historical 19th-century-photograph is a reminder of Nature's need to breath. Also included are three smaller photographs Brahman Shrine & the Waterfall at Kapila Theertham Tirupati. unknown
182044059Paris Crochard 1820. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome XIV - Mai 1820. The entire issue offered. Htitle a. titlepage to vol. 14. 4112 pp. Humboldt's paper: pp. 5-56. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Humboldt's importent investigation of the snow-line in the Himalayas. He found that the snow-line on the northern side of the Himalaya is much higher than below the equator and that there is a connection between the lowest line of the permanent snow the oscillations of the snowl-line and the lowest line of snowfall.The issue also contains the importent chemical paper by PELLETIER & CAVENTOU "Examen chimique de plusieurs végétaux de la famille des colchicées et du principe actif qu'ils renferment. Cévadille veterum album; colchique commun colchicum autumnale." pp. 69-83. </em> unknown