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Charpentier.Essai sur les Glaciers, 1841

Charpentier (Jean De) Essai sur leas Glaciers et sur le terrain erratique du bassin du Rhone,

first edition, presentation copy from the author "à Mademoiselle Byrn", partly hand-coloured folding engraved map, 8 folding lithographed plates,1 loose, illustrations, errata leaf, contemporary name in ink at head of title, light foxing at beginning and end, tear to upper outer corner of pp.61-62 repaired (no loss to text), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (author's inscription at head of front wrapper, lithographed illustration on rear), rubbed, spine a little worn, 8vo, Lausanne, 1841.

***Important work on glaciers and how they moved huge rocks. .