Forbes, J. D. - Reisen in den Savoyer Alpen und in anderen Theilen der Penninen-Kette, nebst Beobachtungen über die Gletscher.

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1845. 8vo (21.0 x 13.3 cm). xii, 386 pp.; seven lithographed plates (of which one hand-coloured) and two folded lithographed maps depicting the Chamonix Alps. Early 20th-century cloth with mounted title and backstrip from original printed boards and spine. = The only German edition of the English original of 1843, edited by the German naturalist Gustav Leonard. Important because of Forbes's observations on Alpine glaciers next to Agassiz, Charpentier, etc. A vague library stamp on the title page, otherwise clean. The (Dutch) binding is simple but strong. A very good copy.

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