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HORACE-BENEDICT DE SAUSSURE (1740-1799)
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HORACE-BENEDICT DE SAUSSURE (1740-1799)
Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Geneve. Neuchàtel: Samuel Fauche, 1779-96. 4 vols, 4° (250 x 187mm). Half titles, 4 engraved title-vignettes, 22 engraved plates, most folding, including 2 folding maps, and 2 folding tables, explanation of plates/errata leaf at end of vol. III, advertisement/errata leaf at end of vol. IV. (Vol II without errata and instructions to the binder, occasional light marginal dampstain.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces, aquamarine endpapers, edges yellow and sprinkled red (light rubbing, front joint of vol. IV starting). Provenance: 'D.R.' (near contemporary bookplate) -- Bibliothek des Deutschen Alpenvereins, Munich (press marks and case-label).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS MILESTONE OF ALPINE LITERATURE, 'FOUNDING WORK OF GEOLOGY AND ONE OF THE FIRST WILDERNESS TRAVEL BOOKS' (Macfarlane). In addition to the Alps, Saussure also considers the Jura, the Vosges, the extinct volcanoes in France and along the Rhine, and the mountains of Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Sicily and the nearby islands. Saussure, an experimental petrologist who popularised the term 'geology', made extensive traverses of the Alps performing experiments on the fusion of granites and porphyries. He studied the inhabitants of the mountains and their conditions of life, writing also of the pleasure of mountaineering and Alpine exploration. His travels unlocked a previously shunned and dangerous terrain and gave birth to a new generation of mountaineers for whom scientific enquiry provided a reason and excuse for travelling in the mountains. AN EXCELLENT SET IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Brunet V, 150; Graesse VI, 277; Lonchamp 2615; Macfarlane, p.48. (4)
Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Geneve. Neuchàtel: Samuel Fauche, 1779-96. 4 vols, 4° (250 x 187mm). Half titles, 4 engraved title-vignettes, 22 engraved plates, most folding, including 2 folding maps, and 2 folding tables, explanation of plates/errata leaf at end of vol. III, advertisement/errata leaf at end of vol. IV. (Vol II without errata and instructions to the binder, occasional light marginal dampstain.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces, aquamarine endpapers, edges yellow and sprinkled red (light rubbing, front joint of vol. IV starting). Provenance: 'D.R.' (near contemporary bookplate) -- Bibliothek des Deutschen Alpenvereins, Munich (press marks and case-label).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS MILESTONE OF ALPINE LITERATURE, 'FOUNDING WORK OF GEOLOGY AND ONE OF THE FIRST WILDERNESS TRAVEL BOOKS' (Macfarlane). In addition to the Alps, Saussure also considers the Jura, the Vosges, the extinct volcanoes in France and along the Rhine, and the mountains of Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Sicily and the nearby islands. Saussure, an experimental petrologist who popularised the term 'geology', made extensive traverses of the Alps performing experiments on the fusion of granites and porphyries. He studied the inhabitants of the mountains and their conditions of life, writing also of the pleasure of mountaineering and Alpine exploration. His travels unlocked a previously shunned and dangerous terrain and gave birth to a new generation of mountaineers for whom scientific enquiry provided a reason and excuse for travelling in the mountains. AN EXCELLENT SET IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Brunet V, 150; Graesse VI, 277; Lonchamp 2615; Macfarlane, p.48. (4)
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