Recherches Geologiques Dans Les Parties de La Savoie, Du Piemont et de La Suisse Voisines du Mont-Blanc (Atlas Volume Only, 32 plates, planches)

Alphonse Favre

Paris V. Masson et Fils, 1867.

Atlas only, without the 3 volumes of text. 54 x 37 cm. Publisher's wraps. 32 plates. Chipping and loss to spine. Rear of 4th to last plate has faint staining, last 3 plates and rear wrap foxing and dampstained, with dampstain affecting 2/3 of the plates. B.M.(N.H.) II, 559; Holder 346; Zittel, p. 304:  

"In 1867, in a now classic description of the geology of the Mount Blanc, he (Favre) ascribed the complex fanshaped arrangement of the rocks in that mountain to the action of strong lateral pressure". A rare and important work on the geology and paleontology of the Swiss Alpine regions.

Last 4 plates and rear wrap foxed and dampstained. Refs: Rean, Monte Bianco 156-157; DHBS III/68, n. 5; Perret 1591.