Odé le monde en couleurs 1953 in12. 1953. Reliure editeur.
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Bon Etat. Couverture défraîchie
Un Autre Monde
M. Emmanuel Arnaiz
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Paris Imp. Daupeley-Gouverneur 16x25cm broché 37p. Edition pré-originale rééditée sous le titre 'L'ordre du discours' chez Gallimard. Un avis liminaire dans l'édition Gallimard indique que les passages coupés lors de la leçon inaugurale ont été rétablis. Bel exemplaire.
Paris Imp. Daupeley-Gouverneur 16x25cm broché 30p. Edition originale.Tirage justifié à 850 exemplaires. Bel exemplaire. Leçon rééditée l'année suivante au éditions du Seuil. Bel exemplaire.
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, in-8vo, VII + 1 p. errata + 312 p., exlibris aux armes de la famille de Sarah Phillott / exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, fine in cont. half calf and marbled boards gilt, with maroon calf label.
First edition, rare. This edition was followed by a 2nd edition in 1821 with coloured plates. Both editions are very rare. For the alpine & Swiss part, Bridges voyage went from Geneva to Chamonix, Col de Balme, Martigny, Sion, Leuk, Gemmi Pass, Kandersteg, Thun, Berne, Herzogenbuchsee, Baden, Zurich, Schaffhausen and Basle. The author’s first book, with a substantial portion on his climbs on Alpine peaks. An attempt at Mont Blanc, ascent of Mont Anvert, the Gemmi and Col de Balme. Appended with routes and itinerairies and lengthy notes, mostly on Switzerland, includingtext quoted from „a person who accompanied M. de Saussure on an ascent of Mont Blanc“. Récit de voyage dans les Alpes par un Membre de l’Université d’Oxford. Les pages 97 à 132 concernent la vallée de Chamonix. Nombreuses références à Jean-Jacques Rousseau. L’appendice 27 contient un intéressant témoignage de l’ascension de Saussure réalisée en 1787, extrait du journal d’un membre de la caravane. Wäber 56; de Beer, Travellers in Switzerland p. 132; Dreyer, 294 (Irrtümlich 320 S.); Engel 259; Perret 0708-A (Bridges, George Wilson as stated in the new editions of 2011 & 2016).
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New York, McGraw - Hill book company, 1952, in-8vo, XIV + 707 p., copy with library stamps, publishers hardbound copy
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London, Printed by S. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1800, in-folio, 4 leaves (1 blank - printed title-page - advertisements - contents) + 1 engraved title-page with view + 218 p. + 1 blank leaf + 1 folded handcoloured engraved map ‘Chart of places... including the principal peaks of that chain of the alps from the Buchetta to Mont St. Gotthard’ + 1 townmap of Lyon in black + 25 plates printed in brown (soot brown or bistre), with most of the original protective tissue gards (mostly browned in the margins), some waterstains to the lower margins of the engraved title-page and some others, hw. ownership on first free fly ‘J. Matilda Scott’, Original leather spine, boards with rests of orig.-paper. Used.
First edition, reprinted in 1806. This book has never been translated into French. Illustrated engraved titlepage with view followed by the numbered plates I to XXVII, which include 1 general coloured map, 1 town-plan of Lyon printed in black and 25 views printed in brown (bistre), all after drawings by Albanis Beaumont. List of plates: Plates numb. I -XXVII: Vue de Lyon, taken from the Arsenal / Lyon Aquaduct, built by the Romans / Voltaire’s Tomb - Roman Theatre at Lyons / Geometrical plan of Lyons including the New Buildings of Parrache (tirage en noir) / Cascade and Lake of Nantua / Town of Nantua, Continuation of the same / Representation of the above Lake / Loss of the Rhone (Perte du Rhône) / Re-appearance of the Rhone / Fort of Cluse / Ferney / Geneva / Versoix / Morges / Lausanne / Vevay (sic.) / Salt-Works at Bex, Canton of Berne (sic.: aujourd’hui Vaud) / Bridge of St. Maurice on the Rhone / Martigny and the Valley of the Rhone / Glacier between those of Valsoray and La Valpeline / Summit of the great St. Bernard, inculding the Hospice or Convent / Sion / Source of the Rhone and Glacier of la Furca / Ascent of the St. Gothard / Hospice on the St. Gothard / The Devil’s Bridge. Abbey: Travel in Aquatint & Lithography n° 53; Wäber, 109; Perret 333: Bel album rare et recherché pour la qualité des illustrations. Image disp.
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