Horace-Benedict de SAUSSURE (1740-1799), "Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'une…

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Horace-Benedict de SAUSSURE (1740-1799), "Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'une essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des environs de Genève", volumes I to VIII, A Neuchatel chez Louis Fauche-Borel, 1796

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Central America - SAUSSURE (Henri de). Mexican antiquities. Le manuscrit du cacique. Genève, Aubert-Schuchardt, 1891. In-4 oblong, 8 pp. paperback, printed and illustrated cover. First edition, illustrated with a title and 17 color plates. This work is a copy of a pre-Columbian manuscript on a solar cult ritual discovered by Henri de Saussure during his trip to Mexico. Despite the mention of "1er fascicule", it was the only one published. Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure was a Swiss entomologist and mineralogist. In 1854, together with a friend, Henri Peyrot, he undertook a voyage of exploration in Mexico and the West Indies, which lasted until 1856. A fine copy of this uncommon brochure. Some foxing on cover, pieces of adhesive on spine. Missing from the usual bibliographies.

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AN EDWARDIAN SILVER AND ENAMEL 'FLAG' SOVEREIGN CASE by Horace Woodward & Co Ltd, Birmingham 1908, inscribed Souvenir of a voyage on the RMS Port Henderson. 3.2cm wide

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E. BRETENIÈRES (*1804), Hôtel des Alpes Leuk, Loéche VS, Switzerland, 1851, Pencil Edmond de Bretenières (1804 Dijon - 1882 ibid.): Gasthof "Hôtel des Alpes" in Leuk in the canton of Valais, Loéche, Leigg, "Louesch", journey to Switzerland, sketchbook, 1851, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper, mounted on Paper Date: 1851 Description: Inscribed and dated lower left. From a scrapbook with travel sketches by the artist. "Esquisses faites par le Baron Edmond de Bretenières feudant les voyages en Suisse" (Sketches made by Baron Edmond de Bretenieres during his travels in Switzerland). Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Switzerland, Size: Paper: 26,4 cm x 21,5 cm (10,4 x 8,5 in) Condition: Very good condition. Clearly wavy in the corners due to old mounting. Occasional pale foxing visible.

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