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[Speleology - Mountaineering] BORY de SAINT-VINCENT, Jean-Baptiste-Geneviève-Marcellin; DUFOUR, Léon Voyage souterrain, ou Description du plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes; par [...] Bory de Saint-Vincent [...]. Suivi de la Relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par M. Léon Dufour [...]. Paris, Ponthieu (printed by Cosson), 8vo: [4]-pp.; 3 pl. (occ. spotting, margin. foxing on the fold. pl.) Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt fillet and roll frame on boards, gilt and decorated flat spine, marbled edges (sl. rubbing, sm. stains on the lower board). Edition of two unusual stories. The first is an account about the galleries of the quarries in Maestricht, where the author (1778-1846), French naturalist and politician, and a convinced Bomapartist, went into hiding during his banishment from to Ill. (complete) with 2 pl. and 1 fold. map lithogr. by L.A. Paulmier. The "Lettres à M. Palassou [...] sur les excursions tentées vers les Montagnes maudites des Pyrénées", by Dufour (1780-1865), French physician and naturalist, relate, in three accounts, the journeys that Reboul and himself made in August in the Pyrenees. Ref. Not in Chadenat, Perret. Prov. Arthur Duval, Brussels (ex-praemio). - Copy given as a prize (2nd in German) by the College of Mons, August Joined, same format : Dewez, M. - Dictionnaire géographique du royaume des Pays-Bas, ou Description physique, historique et politique [...]. Brussels, Ad. Stapleaux, 1 hanad-coloured fold. map. Three-quarter marbled sheep (spine very sl. faded). Ref. Devolder I:(2 vol.) Starting bid: