Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Gourbillon, J(oseph) A(ntoine) de. Voyage critique à l’Etna en 1819. 2 vols.

With 2 titles in lithography, 1 engr. folding plan „Eruptions de l’Etna“, and 3 plates in lithography. Half title, 1 leaf errata, 540, (2) pp.; half title, 1 leaf errata, 463, (1) pp. Large 8vo. 20th-century half calf, uncut. – Paris, Librairie universelle de P. Mongie l’ainé, 1820.

First edition. Very impressive map of all 86 active craters of the Etna. An English translation was published in the same year. – Brunet 20334. – Top of spine of vol. I defective. Outer joints cracking in parts. – Best.-Nr. 27346