ALDE: The Library of Peter Obergfell iI - Precious Books about Mountains, 100825, Paris

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Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
Page Size: 247 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Payot (Venance) et Armand CUVILLIER.

Souvenir du Mont-Blanc et de Chamonix.

Chamonix vers 1860. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 500.00
177 PAYOT (Venance).

Guide-itineraire au Mont-Blanc, a Chamonix et dans les vallees voisines.

Geneve 1857 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
178 PERRET (Jacques).

Guide des livres sur la montagne et l'alpinisme.

Grenoble 1997 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 500.00
179 PERRET (Robert).

Les Panoramas du Mont Blanc.

Chambery 1929 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 500.00
180 Petit (Victor).

Souvenirs des Pyrenees.

Bagneres de Luchon vers 1855. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 875.00
181 QUICK RUNS.

Quick runs in a hilly country by a slow old hound.

Londres 1878 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,875.00
182 Raoul-Rochette (Desire).

Voyage pittoresque dans la Vallee de Chamouni et autour du Mont - Blanc.

Paris 1826 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
183 RAOUL-ROCHETTE.

Lettres sur la Suisse ecrites en 1819, 1820, 1821.

Paris 1823 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,500.00
184 RAPETTI (Ottavio Giovanni).

Il Gruppo del Gran Paradiso, Versante sud-est - Il Gruppo del Monte Bianco, Versante sud.

Turin 1878-1879. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,375.00
185 REY (Guido).

Das Matterhon.

Stuttgart et Leipzig 1905 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 438.00
186 ROBILANT (Esprit Benoit Nicolis de)

De l'utilite et de l'importance des voyages et des courses dans son propre pays.

Turin 1790 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,000.00
187 ROSE (William) et Henry SEYMOUR.

A tour to Great St Bernard's and round Mont Blanc.

Londres 1827 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 500.00
188 RUTHNER (Anton von).

Aus Tirol. Berg und Gletscher - Reisen in den osterreichischen Hochalpen.

Vienna 1869 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 250.00
189 Ruthner (Anton von).

Berg und Gletscher - Reisen in den Osterreichischen Hochalpen.

Vienne 1864 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
190 SAUSSURE (Horace-Benedict de).

Reisen durch die Alpen nebst einem versuche uber die Naturgeschichte der Gegenden von Genf.

Leipzig 1781-1788. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
191 Saussure (Horace-Benedict de)

Agenda du voyageur geologue, tire du 4e volume des Voyages dans les Alpes.

Geneve 1796 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,000.00
192 SAUSSURE (Horace-Benedict de).

Voyages dans les Alpes, precedes d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Geneve.

Neuchatel 1779-1796. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,625.00
193 SAUSSURE (Horace-Benedict de).

Essais sur l'hygrometrie.

Neuchatel 1783 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,063.00
194 SAUSSURE (Horace-Benedict de).

Versuch uber die Hygrometrie.

Leipzig 1784 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
195 SCHAUB (Johann Rudolf).

Bergreisen von R. Schaub S.A.C. : 1- Uri-Glarus 1839. 2- Monte Rosa 1840 - Wallis 1841. ...

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
196 SCHLAGINTWEIT (Adolph et Hermann)

Neue Untersuchungen uber die physicalische Geographie und die Geologie der Alpen.

Leipzig 1854 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
197 SCHLAGINTWEIT (Adolph et Hermann).

Reisen in Indien und Hochasien. Eine Darstellung der Landschaft, der Cultur und Sitten der Bewohner, in Verbindung mit klimatischen und geologischen Verhaltnissen, basirt auf die Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Mission von Hermann, Adolph und Robert von

Iena 1869-1880. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
198 SCHWEIZER ALPEN-CLUB.

Jahrbuch des S.A.C.

1864 - 1909. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
199 SENONNES (Vicomte Alexandre de) et Edouard PINGRET.

Promenade sur le Lac Wallenstadt et dans le pays des Grisons.

Paris 1827 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
200 SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe et Mary Doldwin) et Charles ELTON.

An account of Shelle's visits to France, Switzerland, and Savoy, in the years 1814 and 1816 with extracts from "The history of six weeks tour" et "Letters descriptive of a sail round Lake of Geneva and the glaciers of Chamouni" first published in the year

Londres 1894 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,000.00
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