Essai sur la théorie des volcans d’Auvergne
MONTLOSIER (François-Dominique de REYNAUD de.)
Riom et Clermont - Landriot et Rousset - 1802
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 184 pp.
Full binding of glazed, jaspered fawn calf from the time. Black title piece on smooth back decorated, gilded net in frame of the dishes, gilded castor on cups. Slightly blunt angles. Red slices.
Second edition, the first one dates from 1789. "My book could be useful to foreigners, who arrive in this province without any idea of the phenomena that will be before their eyes" (Preface).
Nice provenance for this copy in the second edition of this treatise on vulcanology in Auvergne (formation, activity, topography, influences and incidences).
Provenance: Ex-breaker Edward Ellice, son of a family of fur traders in Canada, influential British politician who was a Member of Parliament for Coventry (1818-63), Secretary of the Treasury, then Secretary of War. The Ellice family's archives are held at the Bibliothèque de Montréal in Canada. The Ellice Islands (Ellice Islands) were so named in honour of the family, were a former British colony, now independent state of Tuvalu (independent Polynesian archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean).
Nice copy.
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