Author: Saussure, H. [B.] De
Title: Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève. Volumes I-II.
Description: Neuchatel, Fauche-Borel, 1803-1804. 4to. Two engraved folded maps, 14 engraved plates (several folded), two engraved titlevignettes, two engraved textvignettes. Contemporary uniform half calf. = This is the quarto re-issue from 1803-1804 by the same printer-publisher in Neuchatel. Should be complete in four volumes but the first volume contains the important discours préliminaire dated Genève 28 nov. 1779 by H. de Saussure and contains furthermore the petrographical descriptions of the surrounding of Geneva, Le Mont Sleve, Coteau de Montoux, les lacs du Jura de Sallenche à Servoz, Sommet de Buet, Mont de Sion, Servoz au prieuré de Chamonix, des glaciers en général, Mont Breven, Glaciers des Buissons, rochers secondaires renfermés dans la vallée de Chamonix, Bases du Mont-Blanc, Glacier de Miage, St. Bernard, St. Pierre, Histoire des tentatives que l'on a faites pour parvenier à la cime du Mont-Blanc et lithologie au pied du Mont-Blanc, etc. A milestone in the history of Alpinism and esp. in the scientific Alpinism. He envisioned a theory of the earth that was to be based on uniformitarian principles and we own him the description of the character of the various rocks and fossils that compose mountain ranges. One map in photostat on old paper. See DSB vol. 12 p. 120, etc.

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