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SAUSSURE, Horace-Bénedict de (1740-1799). Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genêve. Neuchatel: Louis Fauche-Borel, 1803 (vols. I-IV) -1796 (vols. V-VIII).
8 volumes, 8° (190 x 113mm). Half-titles, titles, 2 folding engraved maps (one of Geneva and environs, the other of the Alps near Mont Blanc), 20 engraved folding plates on 19 sheets, 4 folding letterpress tables in vol. III, woodcut headpieces. (Some marginal tears to text leaves, affecting text in five cases, once, on Y5 of vol. III, with slight loss, last gathering of vol. VII loose.) Near-contemporary marbled boards (extremities slightly rubbed). Cf. Lonchamp 2615; Brunet V, 150-1.
A 38-page treatise entitled Analyse de quelques expériences faites pour la détermination des hauteurs par le moyen de barometre by Jean Trembley is bound in at the back of volume IV. (8)
8 volumes, 8° (190 x 113mm). Half-titles, titles, 2 folding engraved maps (one of Geneva and environs, the other of the Alps near Mont Blanc), 20 engraved folding plates on 19 sheets, 4 folding letterpress tables in vol. III, woodcut headpieces. (Some marginal tears to text leaves, affecting text in five cases, once, on Y5 of vol. III, with slight loss, last gathering of vol. VII loose.) Near-contemporary marbled boards (extremities slightly rubbed). Cf. Lonchamp 2615; Brunet V, 150-1.
A 38-page treatise entitled Analyse de quelques expériences faites pour la détermination des hauteurs par le moyen de barometre by Jean Trembley is bound in at the back of volume IV. (8)