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The scenery of Switzerland and the causes to which it is due.
London, Macmillan, 1896, in-8vo, frontispiece (the Glacier of the Rhone) + XXXV (+1 white) + 480 p. with 154 ill. + 1 folded map (lakes colored in blue), with 1 color plate (on p. 369:) ‘Lauterbrunnen. View of the Jungfrau’. Original clothbound.
Première édition, plusieurs fois rééditée. Important ouvrage de vulgarisation sur les phénomènes géologiques qui sont à l’origine des paysages pittoresques de la Suisse. DSB VIII, 527ff. - Perret 0190 (sous: Avebury (John Lubbock)). Image disp.
(SLACES, NVVA)
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
The scenery of Switzerland and the causes to which it is due.
London, Macmillan, 1896, in-8vo, frontispiece + XXXV + 480 p. with 154 ill. + 1 coloured folded map (small tear) + 1 coloured plate ‘View of the Jungfrau’, some stains, hw. exlibris on first flyleaf ‘J.M. Crum 1896’, H.-leather binding with large corners, spine with gilt ornaments (bound by Rivière & Son). Topedge gilt. Nice, privatly bound copy.
First edition in a fine copy. It was Sir John Lubbock (1834 - 1913) who coined the terms 'Neolithic' and 'Paleolithic' to distinguish the later and earlier Stone Age periods. DSB VIII, 527ff. - Perret 0190. Image disp.
(SLACES, NVVA)
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
Paix et bonheur
Paris, Felix Alcan 1910 249pp. (+ 32pp.catalogue d'éditeur), br.orig., 19cm., dans la série "Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine", bon état, F80425
