ALPS AND ALPINISM - Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund. The... Lot 103

ALPS AND ALPINISM - Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund. The Ice Mountains of the Swiss Country. 3 volumes. With gest. Frontispiece by A. Zingg after J. L. Alberti, 18 fold. Copper plates and 2 fold. Copper maps. Bern, A. Wagner Sohn, 1760. 8°. XLI p., [1] fol., 237 p., [2] fol.; [2] fol., IX p., [1] fol., 224 p.; XIV, 219 p., [1] fol. leather bindings d. Z. with spine label and spine gilt (capitals bumped and with small missing parts, spine and joints rubbed, somewhat stained). Barth 18025 - Lonchamp 1321 - Wäber 34 - Poggendorf I, 965 - Studer, Geschichte der physischen Geographie der Schweiz, pp. 339f. - First edition. - "In his seminal work 'Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes' the Bernese enlightener Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717-1778) provided the first general ice age and glacier theory and the first Swiss mineral locality map". Findspot map for minerals" (HLS). With exceptionally beautiful vedute engraved by Adrian Zingg according to his own and others' designs. - Slightly browned, the first volume with dampstain in lower margin. Name stamps on endpapers, title with old duplicate stamps on verso.