Description
Unbound. Wrapped in gray printed boards. 22.4×14.8×0.7 cm. Jent und Gassmann. Solothurn. 1841. One folded sheet. One lithographed elevation map. Very good, old bookseller’s stamps to cover, some light toning to map fold. German text. Image size: 53×83 cm. Scarce. Drawn by J. Walker, Captain of Engineers, based on trigonometric determinations by Weis, Osterwald, Buchwalder, Eschmann, Berchtold, and barometric observations by (de) Saussure, Kasthofer, Merian, Hugi, and Frei. Documents a project to determine the elevations of the principal Alpine peaks. weight: 0.3 lb.
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