Chimborazo viewed from the Tapia plateau. Snow-capped inactive stratovolcano in the Andes. In the foreground, Native Americans tend to lamas, cactus, agave, etc. Chimborasso in South America. Copied from Alexander von Humboldt's Vues des Cordilleres, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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