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GRÜNER, GOTTLIEB SIGMUND. Histoire Naturelle des Glacières de Suisse. Engraved frontispiece and 18 folding plates; folding table; 2 folding maps. xiv, [2], 372, xiv, [2] pages, including half-title. 4to, 253x190 mm, contemporary mottled calf, cover edges worn with 3 corners restored; contents lightly dampwrinkled, light dampstaining and foxing in upper margins, scattered minor spotting, plates generally clean with only clean tear in blank outer margin of plate 11 and minor marginal stains on plate 12. Bookplates of the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution and Vernon Howard. Paris: Panckoucke, 1770
first edition in french, adapted from the author's 1760 monograph in German on Swiss glaciers. Section 8 of the first part deals with Chamonix and Mont Blanc. According to Perret, plate 13 is the earliest known published view of Mont Blanc. Meckly 86 (original edition); Perret 2072 (this edition).
