Ribbe, Charles de. - - Lot 199

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Ribbe, Charles de. - - Lot 199
Ribbe, Charles de. - La Provence au point de vue des bois, des torrents et des inondations avant et après 1789. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1857. Large in-8°, 206 pp, green half-chagrin, richly decorated and gilt ribbed spine (antique binding). A fine copy. Extract from "Bulletin trimestriel de la Société forestière de Franche-Comté et Belfort. October 1900": "C. de Ribbe was not yet 30 when he witnessed the terrible floods of 1856 that affected the whole of France (20 years before the great flood of the Garonne and the now famous presidential exclamation). Part of his native Provence, which he watched with the watchful eye of a landowner, was well under water [...] (He was to) devote himself to understanding the calamities ravaging Provence, the subject of this book. AP
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