CASTERET, Norbert. The Descent of Pierre Saint-Martin … Translated by John Warrington. London, J. M. Dent, [1955].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers, printed wrap-around by the publishers lettered FILE COPY, a fine folded copy of the wrapper tipped in at the beginning; pp. xi, 160, plates after photograhs, illustrations in the text; wrapper a little frayed, otherwise very good.
First edition in English of this book by the French cave diver on his exploration of the Pyrenees cavern in the Col de la Pierre St. Martin, which took several years. Casteret was one of the most famous cavers of the world in the middle of the 20th century.
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