Barthélemy FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Arnauld-Eloi GAUTIER D'AGOTY
Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay [Research on the Extinct Volcanoes of the Vivarais and the Velay With a Discourse on Burning Volcanoes, and Analytical Memoirs on Schorls, Zeolite, Basalt, Pozzolana, Lavas, and the various Substances found embedded therein, etc.]
Joseph Cuchet • Nyon aîné • Née et Masquelier|Grenoble • Paris 1778|30.5 x 45 cm|Copper engraving|Relié
First edition, illustrated with twenty plates, including one folding plate. Three vignettes and several ornamental initials.
Full basane binding, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, spine with six raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, fleurons and rolls, green morocco title-piece, gilt fillet on the board edges, gilt inner dentelle, stone paper boards. Binding rubbed and scuffed, with abrasions and losses, upper joint split and lower joint partially split at the foot, old traces of mould staining in the margins of several leaves at the beginning of the volume.
Manuscript inscription "Sansac" on the title page.
...€3,500