Saussure (Horace-Bènedict de). Voyages dans les Alpes, 4 vols, 1st & 2nd ed, 1796-1804

Saussure (Horace-Bènedict de). Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des enviorns de Geneve, 4 volumes, 1st & 2nd edition, Neuchâtel: Louis Fauche-Borel, 1796-1804, engraved vignettes to titles, 22 plates on 21 engraved sheets, 2 folding engraved maps, contemporary brown ink ownership inscriptions of Louis Gautier to head of titles, mid-19th-century ownership inscriptions of Ludwig Gautier to front free endpapers, bookplates of Norfolk & Norwich library to front pastedowns, contemporary half calf gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, rubbed, 4to (Quantity: 4) From a UK private collection. The first two volumes in second edition, the latter two in first edition. Saussure's landmark study of the Alps and Mont Blanc, with an account of the geology of the region, as well as of Geneva and the surrounding area.