NIEPCE B. GUIDE TO THE DAUPHINE ALPS - Allevard Valley. Its thermal establishment, therapeutic actions of its sulphurous and iodinated waters, etc., etc.; action of the whey baths, etc., etc. - History, plants, geology, zoology, ichthyology, insects, butterflies, botany, races and walks, cretins, albinos, etc. Follow-up of the therapeutic and medical properties of the waters of Uriage and La Motte, and excursions in their surroundings. GUIDE TO THE DAUPHINE ALPS - Allevard Valley. Its thermal establishment, therapeutic actions of its sulphurous and iodized waters, etc., etc.; action of the whey baths, etc., etc. - History, plants, geology, zoology, ichthyology, insects, butterflies, botany, races and walks, cretins, albinos, etc. Follow-up of the therapeutic and medical properties of the waters of Uriage and La Motte, and excursions in their surroundings. GRENOBLE, MERLE & Cie, (1861). Two parts in one volume, in-12, of VII pp, (2) ff (table of contents p. 189 to 191 bound in error at this place), 188 pp, 309 pp, (1) f. catalog of works of the Merle bookstore, half-bound in red chagrin with corners of the time. Spine with 4 nerves bearing the gilt title. A good copy. First edition, illustrated with 9 plates out of text, two of which, very successful, show morons. Not very common. Clinical, medical and touristic study on the spa of Allevard: spa establishment, diseases, properties of the waters, history, topography, geology, fauna and flora, population (goiterers, morons and albinos), races and walks in the surroundings of Allevard, Uriage, La Motte-les-Bains. A chapter has been reserved for goitreous and cretinous people. It contains the history of the causes which can give rise to this degeneration of the human species. The work is decorated with 9 lithographs (3 views, 1 geological section and 5 portraits).