Travel journal of Louis Auguste Alphonse... - Lot 145 - Crait + Müller

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Travel journal of Louis Auguste Alphonse... - Lot 145 - Crait + Müller
Travel journal of Louis Auguste Alphonse de Launay between 1878 and 1882 in France, Switzerland, Tyrol, Italy. Handwritten notebook (31,5 x 18,5 cm) of 354 pp. written on both sides (20 blank pages). Bound in half cloth with gold title on the spine. Brittany occupies 74 pp. with 2 maps describing the route from 5/09/1878 to 5/10/1879 - Switzerland, Venice and Milan are visited from 26/08/1880 to 28/09/1880 (1 map and 52 ff.) - Munich, Tyrol and Venice are visited in 08-09/ 1881 (1 map and 75 pp.) - geological race carried out in 05/1882 between Orleans, Blois, Vierzon, Bourges, the castles of the Loire (11 pp, 1 small map) - Provence, Cannes, Genoa, Pisa, Siena, Rome and Florence saw his passage from 10/10 to 14/11/1882 (100 pp. and many small sketches) - various between 01/1883 and 05/1884 (10 pp. of which 2 of very nice sketches). Louis de Launay was a great geologist specializing in mineral deposits, especially gold mines. His daughter married the speleologist Martel.
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