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Voyages dans les Alpes : précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève. Volume 2.

Saussure was almost single-handedly responsible for drawing attention to the Alps and particularly Mont Blanc. He visited Chamonix in 1760 and established a prize for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, which was achieved in 1786. Saussure reached the summit himself the following year and published 'Relation abregée d'un Voyage a la Cime du Mont-Blanc', the first published account of the ascent of the mountain. The present work was his magnum opus and two further volumes appeared in 1796.

Saussure, Horace Benedict de, 1740-1799

Voyages dans les Alpes : précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève. Volume 1.

Saussure was almost single-handedly responsible for drawing attention to the Alps and particularly Mont Blanc. He visited Chamonix in 1760 and established a prize for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, which was achieved in 1786. Saussure reached the summit himself the following year and published 'Relation abregée d'un Voyage a la Cime du Mont-Blanc', the first published account of the ascent of the mountain. The present work was his magnum opus and two further volumes appeared in 1796.

Saussure, Horace Benedict de, 1740-1799

A Fragment on Government

First edition of Bentham's first published work, a radical critique of the theoretical foundations of Blackstone's Commentaries and the first statement of the principle of utility underlying Bentham's system of thought.

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832

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