Author: FORBES, James D. (David) (1809-1868):
Title: Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine chain, with observations of the phenomena of glaciers. Second edition, revised.
Description: Edinburgh, (T. Constable for) Adam and Charles Black, and Longman (and others) in London, M.DCCC.XLV., 1845, in-4°, Fronz 'Glacier Table' in color + XVI + 460 p. + 1 leaf publ. adds, illustrated with 9 lithogr. plates (front incl.) + 2 maps of which 1 large folded map of Mer de Glace + 9 topogr. sketches on 4 plates, Exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, contemporary blindpressed cloth binding. Joints used, but firm. ¶ Second edition of a milestone in alpine book publishing, the first book devoted to the systematic exploration of the high Alps, with Forbes' most important early studies on glaciers and glaciology. 'Le premier livre publié en anglais consacré à l'exploration systématique de la haute montagne. Il contient plusieurs chapitres consacrés à une théorie sur les glaciers. Ouvrage fondamental. La première édition est la plus rare et recherchée' (Perret). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Perret 1707; Wäber BSL III/181; cf. Barth 31913 (dt. Bearbeitung 1845) 18163a (von Coolidge hrsg. Auflage 1900); Steinitzer 36 and 81-82; Lehner 332-3, 367, 372 und 621; Dictionary of Scientific Biography V/68-69.

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