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Flowers from the upper Alps, with glimpses of their homes. The descriptive text by T.G. Bonney.
London, (Wyman for) W.M. Thompson, 1876, in-4to, VIII + 12 chromolithogr. plates with their descriptions, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, full brown cloth binding, covers with rich gilt (front) and blindstamped (back) decoration, gilt title on circular blue cloth in centre, some slight rubbing.
By the famous mountain painter Elijah Walton, author of the superbe illustrated alpine book ‘The peaks and valleys of the Alpes’ published the same year. The ‘Flowers...’ is a most charming work with 12 full page chromolithographs, representing beautiful alpine flowers, with appropriate landscape backgrounds of peaks, rocks or glaciers. Pure shaped, delicate, and transparent in colour, with tints admirably blended by gradations almost as fine as wrought by hand.With commentary by the English geologist Thomas George Bonney (1833-1923), another great alpinist and naturalist at the time. Nissen BBI 2104. Perret BBl 4513. Image disp.
(SLACES, NVVA)
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
The story of our planet. Illustrated. (Earth sciences - Alpes - geology. (A beautiful copy).
London, Cassell & Company Limited, MCMII, 1902, gr. in-8vo, frontispice en couleur ‘The Mer the Glace with the grandes Jorasses’ + XV (+ 1 = List of plates) + 592 p. richly illustrated in-text with ca. 170 woodengravings + 5 plates & maps in color. Schoolprize binding from the ‘Grammar School Rotherham’ prize given by H. Hart Esq. Awarded to R. S. Whitaker 1901’, Red morocco binding. Spine richly gilt with five raised bands., first cover with gilt heraldic school emblem, second cover a bit stained (darkened). All edges marbled with marbled endpapers., in all a fine copy.
Reprinted from the first edition of 1893. Plates and maps are showing map contours of the Atlantic Ocean - Contours of Pacific Ocean - Bird’s-eye view of the Canyons of Colorado - Vaagkallen, Lofoten, Islands The Work of Weather and Glacier - A Lava-Stream Flowing into a Lake, Hawaii. Contents: The story, its books and their speech / II: The processes of sculpture and moulding / III: Changes from within / IV The story of past ages / V: On some theoretical questions. Image disp.
(SLACES, NVVA)
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
