Genève, Barbe, Manget & Comp. et Paris, Buisson, 1787. Trois tomes en deux volumes in-8,
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Une carte dépliante et treize planches dont un frontispice. "Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, complète en trois volumes, ornée de tableaux dessinées sur le lieux par l'Auteur et gravés par les meilleures artistes". * Voir photographie(s) / See the picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.
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Geneve, Barde, Manget, 1787. Bound in 3 contemp. full calf. Spines gilt and with tome-and title-labels with gilt lettering. A paper-label pasted on lower part of spine on volume one. A stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. (1), XVI, 308 (2), 244" 290 pp., 1 large folded engraved map (gravée par C.G. Geisler) and 13 engraved plates (incl. frontispiece, numb. I-XIII, all). A few scattered brownspots. A fine, wide-margined copy.
A fine copy of this scarce classical work on the Alps and its glaciers, written by the famous Swiss traveler and writer Marc Theodore Bourrit (1739-1819), a great and enduring traveler of the Alps who pioneered in making them known to the rest of the world. He was furthermore the first to ascent the Buet and the first traveler (and second person in all) to attempt to climb Mont Blanc.Originally, Bourrit, actually born in France, was an artist, etcher, and pastor famous for his wonderful singing voice and love of music. When he was given the job as choirmaster of the Church of St Peter in Geneva, he finally had time to devote himself to the exploration of the Alps, for which he possessed a great passion. Saussure, who had initially come up with the idea of someone climbing the tallest mountain, the Mont Blanc, and had offered a reward for doing this, usually brought Bourrit with him on his mountain-ascents, both due to his abilities in this field, but also due to his excellent artistic skills with which he would be able to document the excursions. But Bourrit's greatest merit lies in making the Alps know to the rest of the world, and in this he was a pioneer. From 1769 he had toured the Alpine country year after year, and he kept doing this until 1802 (he stopped aged 63). Perhaps his greatest work is the present ""Nouvelle description des glaciers""... which constitutes one of the first attempts to spread public knowledge about the Alps and the glaciers.Due to his important work within the field, he was named ""historiographe des Alpes"" by Emperor Joseph II.
Genève, Paul Barde, 1785, gr. in-8vo, (190 x 115 mm) XVI + 246 p. / 272 p. [+3] / 8 ff. + 308 p. + 2 cartes dépl. d’après Bourrit gravée par Christian Gottlieb Geisler + 13 (5 dépl..) gravures sur cuivre d’après Bourrit gravée par Rose Angélique Moitte. Reliure en veau marbrées d’époque, dos richement orné or, 2 pièces une pour le titre et l’autre pour la tomaison, tranches rouges.
Première édition, bel exemplaire, curiosité de notre exemplaire la carte dépl. ‘La descente du Côté du midi des Alpes...’, se trouve en 2 exemplaires (dans le tome 1 & 3).Fine copy of Bourrit's three volume edition of the descriptions of his travels into the Alps and its glaciers.The artist and explorer - since 1768 cantor of the Geneva cathedral - rejoined here his 'Description des Alpes Pennines et Rhétiennes' of 1781with the 'Nouvelle description des glacières et glaciers de Savoye', which has nothing to do with his first publication of 1773, the 'Description des glacières, glaciers et amas de glaces du Duché de Savoye'. A complete copy with all engravings by the French engraver Rose Angélique Moitte after Bourrit's drawings, including the folding map (bound in twice), etched after Bourrit. Perret 660; Wäber 175; Lonchamp 412; Studer 518; Réan, Monte Bianco, S. 31; Gattlen, L'estampe topographique du Valais 1548-1850 (1987), S. 32; De Beer, Early travellers in the Alps ((1967), 154ff. Image disp.
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A Genève, Chez Paul Barde, 1785, 3 volumes in-8 en brochure d'attente de 140 x 220 mm environ : 246 pages, 1 carte dépliante et 4 planches - 272 pages, (2) ff. table et avis au relieur, 4 planches - Faux-titre, page de titre, (6) ff. Adresse, Table, Explication des planches, 308 pages, 5 planches. Complet des 14 planches. Brochures d'attente en état moyen (cornées, avec quelques manques), de rares rousseurs, 2 déchirures légères au Tome I (p.17 et 119) sinon intérieur frais, bel ensemble à relier.
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