Martel, Pierre | An Account of the Glaciers...—The Macclesfield copy

Martel, Pierre 

An Account of the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy in Two Letters... London: for Peter Martel, 1744

Five works in one volume, 4to (252 x 195 mm). Two folding engraved plates; short closed tear in both plates, some light foxing. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, edges stained red; spine lacking letting piece, rubbed, upper board nearly detached, front free endpaper loose.

[Bound with:] Klein, Jakob Theodor. Descriptiones Tubulorum Marinorum. Gdansk: Knoch, 1731. Ten engraved plates. First edition.

P., N. [drop-title:] Literae ad amicum: quibus de cl. virorum J. Th. Kleinii & Jo. Phil. Breynii opusculis nuper editis modeste disseritur. Amsterdam: 1732.

Breyn, Johann Philipp. Dissertatio physica de polythalamiis... huic adiicitur commentatiuncula de belemnitis prussicis; tandemque schediasma de echinis methodice disponendis cum figuris. Gdansk: Cornelius von Beughem, 1732. Eleven engraved plates.

Short, Thomas. A Dissertation Upon Tea... Also a Discourse on the Virtues of Sage and Water. London: W. Bowyer for F. Gyles, 1730. First edition.

PROVENANCE

Earls of Macclesfield (armorial bookplate; Sotheby’s London, 16 March 2004, “The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part One: Natural History, lot 67)