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ANDRE CESAR BORDIER

ANDRE CESAR BORDIER

已結束2007年9月27日

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GBP 750

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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.