Humboldt. - Agassiz, Louis:

Address delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt, under the auspices of the Bosten Society of Natural History. With an account of the evening reception.
Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869. 107 SS. Obrosch. (Katnr: 73508) First edition of a noted early biography of Humboldt. The first publication of the text of Agassiz's keynote address at the Humboldt Centenary Celebration organized by the Boston Society of Natural History. "I am invited to an unwonted task. Thus far I have appeared before the public only as a teacher of Natural History. Today, for the first time in my life, I leave a field in which I am at home, to take upon myself the duties of a biographer. If I succeed at all, it will be because I so loved and honored the man whose memory brings us together" (S. 3). - Stempel a.d. Titelblatt, Umschlag an den Ecken minimal bestoßen.