Ventes live - Lot 558
[Europe - Alpes]
Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genêve.
Neufchatel, L. Fauche-Borel, 1803, 1796 [parts 5-8]
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750
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Description du lot
8 vol., 8vo: xxxix-423, [4]-411, [4]-456, [4]-474-38, [4]-xvi-496, [4]-368, [4]-528-[3], [4]-442 pp. (browning concentrated on some pp., min. spotting).
Contemp. half sheep, sp. paper on covers, flat gilt-orn. spines (corners, joints, heads and tails sl. rubbed).
Later, mixed ed. (1st 1779-1796) of this great classic on the geology of the Mont Blanc and the Alps by the naturalist de Saussure (1740-1799). Ill. with 2 maps and 21 engr. pl. of which some folding showing glaciers, mountains, rocks, etc.
Ref. BnF. - Poggendorff II:755.
Prov. Auguste Guiguer.