Travel 1778 Mont Blanc Chamonix Glaciers

Travel | Verhaal eener reize na de Ys-bergen, 1778

Bourrit, M.Th.

Travel | Verhaal eener reize na de Ys-bergen van het hertogdom Savoije, benevens eene beschryving der gezigten van den berg Blanc. Uit het Fransch vertaald. Amsterdam, Yntema en Tieboel, 1778.

Name: Travel | Verhaal eener reize na de Ys-bergen van het hertogdom Savoije, benevens eene beschryving der gezigten van den berg Blanc. Uit het Fransch vertaald. Amsterdam, Yntema en Tieboel, 1778.
SKU: 42184
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Bound in original marbled paper, (XX) 335 (2) pp. Illustrated with 3 engravings (Chamonix, Montanvert & Bossons) and a table, which is a fold-out. Light foxing on two illustrations (85, 96). B0651

The first and only Dutch translation of Marc-Théodore Bourrit’s 1773 Description des glacières, glaciers et amas de glace du Duché de Savoye. An alpine explorer, Bourrit wrote accounts of mountaineering in the Italy-France-Switzerland region; this, his first work, focused on the glaciers of Chamonix-Mont Blanc and surrounding excursions. The text’s translation into Dutch speaks to the presence in the Netherlands of the broader, 18th-century European enthusiasm for alpine tourism, which also intersected with “scientific” tourism insofar as some voyagers would carry instruments (e.g. a barometer) to conduct measurements as part of the travel experience. Accordingly, the final page is a fold-out with a table of the “Height of the Major Mountains in the World”, as recorded by other mountaineers (De Luc, Saussure, Feuillee, Micheli).

ijsberg – ijsbergen – gletsjer beschrijving – alpinisme – hiking – klimsport – alpen toerisme

SKU: 42184

€ 2.180,00 (€ 2.000,00 ex. btw)

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