Bourrit m th (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

mezza pelle. Zustand: Good. 2 vol. in un tomo in-8 (190x120 mm),  pp. XX, 247; (4), 285. Legatura coeva in m. pelle, titolo su tassello in carta al dorso, tagli marmorizzati.  Prima edizione di entrambi i volumi, corredati di una carta topogr. più volte ripieg. e 8 tavole f.t. inc. in rame da Angel. Moitte dai disegni dell'autore (Glacier de Chermontane, Vallée de glace de Chermontane, Vue du Vallais et du Rhone, Vallese, Lac du Kandel Steig, Vue du glacier et de la source du Rhône, Glacier du Grindelvald, Vue du lac de Chède et du Mont Blanc); con vignette e finalini in silogr. Dedica al re di Francia Luigi XVI. Opera "qui a contribué de manière décisive au développement de l'intérêt pour les Alpes; Bourrit relate les excursions qu'il a réalisées dans le Valais, où il fut l'un des premiers à explorer les glaciers. Peu courant, très recherché" (Perret). Marc-Théodore Bourrit fu alpinista, compositore, pittore, incisore, viaggiatore, scrittore e storiografo svizzero, ed è considerato a buon diritto, insieme a Horace-Bénédict de Saussure e Jean André Deluc, un pioniere dell'esplorazione delle Alpi e dell'alpinismo. Buon esemplare, fresco e marginoso, alone d'umido al margine interno dei primi fogli del secondo volume.  Perret 658. Book. …

Bound in original marbled paper, (XX) 335 (2) pp. Illustrated with 3 engravings (Chamonix, Montanvert & Bossons) and a table, which is a fold-out. Light foxing on two illustrations (85, 96). B0651The first and only Dutch translation of Marc-The?odore Bourrit's 1773 Description des glacie?res, glaciers et amas de glace du Duche? de Savoye. An alpine explorer, Bourrit wrote accounts of mountaineering in the Italy-France-Switzerland region; this, his first work, focused on the glaciers of Chamonix-Mont Blanc and surrounding excursions. The text's translation into Dutch speaks to the presence in the Netherlands of the broader, 18th-century European enthusiasm for alpine tourism, which also intersected with "scientific" tourism insofar as some voyagers would carry instruments (e.g. a barometer) to conduct measurements as part of the travel experience. Accordingly, the final page is a fold-out with a table of the "Height of the Major Mountains in the World", as recorded by other mountaineers (De Luc, Saussure, Feuillee, Micheli).ijsberg - ijsbergen - gletsjer beschrijving - alpinisme - hiking - klimsport - alpen toerisme. …