Measuring the World

First UK edition/first printing. SIGNED by the author to title page. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. Publisher’s original paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Some foxing to edges and first and last few leaves (including title page). In near fine dust jacket, a little rubbed to edges. *** Historical novel based on the lives of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. This debut novel by Daniel Kehlman became one of the bestselling German language novels of all time. Originally published in German in 2005.