ANDRE CESAR BORDIER
Voyage pitoresque aux glacieres de Savoye. Geneva: L.A. Caille, 1773. 12° (155 x 94mm). Half-title. (Occasional marginal dampstain, and occasional browning.) Contemporary mottled calf, preserving marbled wrappers (re-backed and re-cornered, endpapers renewed). Provenance: contemporary shelf-mark on inside rear wrapper -- The Alpine Club (stamp and inscription).
FIRST EDITION. A fundamental work in ice mechanics. Bordier was first to describe ice as fluid and to explain the movement of glaciers towards the plain. Meckly 23.
ANDRE CESAR BORDIER
Voyage pitoresque aux glacieres de Savoye. Geneva: L.A. Caille, 1773. 12° (155 x 94mm). Half-title. (Occasional marginal dampstain, and occasional browning.) Contemporary mottled calf, preserving marbled wrappers (re-backed and re-cornered, endpapers renewed). Provenance: contemporary shelf-mark on inside rear wrapper -- The Alpine Club (stamp and inscription).
FIRST EDITION. A fundamental work in ice mechanics. Bordier was first to describe ice as fluid and to explain the movement of glaciers towards the plain. Meckly 23.
