GRAND-CARTERET (John). The mountain through the ages. Role played by it: how it has been seen. I. From ancient times to the end of the eighteenth. II. The mountain today. Grenoble, Moutiers, Dumas, Ducloz, 1903-1904. 2 volumes in-4, later burgundy half-chagrin. XV, 559 pp, vignette on title page and 307 illustrations based on old documents, including 3 double plates in chromolithography. Volume II: [iv], 494 pp, vignette on title page, frontispiece and 2 double plates in sepia, 2 other plates and 350 illustrations in the text. First edition of this important work illustrated with a total of 657 reproductions, some of which are double-page, out-of-text, in bistre or in colour. One of 50 copies on Japon Impérial (n°10).