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Eight separate parts, each in wrappers. Continuously paged, 136 pp. + 2 variant title pages and a contents leaf at end of final part. With 43 color  plates, including a revision of plate 6. 29.5x35 cm (11¾x13¾"), printed wrappers.

Warren Heckrotte commented on this atlas in his notes: "The atlas in wrappers is rare. I have listed the atlas separately and not with text, since it is clear that the text was not published with an atlas. The only reference to an atlas in Humboldt's text is to Berghaus' Physical atlas. In Harper's Magazine, March 1852, p 572, there is the following notice: The English admirers of Humboldt's Kosmos will be glad to learn that an important addition has been made to the commentaries on that great work, by Herr Bronne's [sic] 'Collection of Maps for the Kosmos.' The first series, containing six plates, has just been published by Krais and Hoffmann, at Stuttgardt. These six plates are to be followed by thirty-six others, and contain the planetary, solar, and lunar systems, the plain globes, and the body of the earth, and the elevations of its surface, with a variety of diagrams, and a set of explanatory notes." For the first edition of Humboldt's Kosmos, see section 3 of this catalogue.