Lot 1260 , Bakewell, Robert - Travels comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise and Various Parts of the Grecian and Penine Alps and in Switzerland and Auverge in the years 1820,1821 and 1822, 2 vols, 1st ed

° Bakewell, Robert - Travels comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise and Various Parts of the Grecian and Penine Alps and in Switzerland and Auverge in the years 1820,1821 and 1822, 2 vols, 1st edition, 8vo, rebound quarter morocco with marbled boards, 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates, wood-engraved illustrations, most full-page, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1823 Note: This work details a lengthy tour by geologist Robert Bakewell (1767-1843) and his second wife, offering one of the earliest English descriptions of the volcanic geology of the Auvergne and insights into the ages of Alpine rocks through fossils. Due to Bakewell's disputes with the Geological Society, the book received few reviews and is not well known.
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