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Voyages dans les Alps, Precedes d'un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de3s Environs de Geneve
by Saussure, Horace-Benedict de
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Neuchatel: Samuel Fauche, 1779-1786-1796-1796. xxxvi,540,(1); xvi,641; xx,532,(2),(2),594,(2) pp. Quarto. 4 volumes. Bound in a very attractive, 19th century half morocco and light green cloth binding. Morocco tips to corners. Contrasting red labels with spine ruled into 7 compartments. Half titles. 2 folding maps. 21 plates, many folding. A fine very clean attractive set A very scarce set of Saussure's magnum opus with all of the volumes in first edition. Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology. Wikipedia 177
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142760
- Title
- Voyages dans les Alps, Precedes d'un Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle de3s Environs de Geneve
- Author
- Saussure, Horace-Benedict de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Samuel Fauche
- Place of Publication
- Neuchatel
- Date Published
- 1779-1786-1796-1796
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Switzerland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Aquila Books
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About Aquila Books
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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