TROYE (Jean-Baptiste). A short account of Mont Blanc and the Valley of Chamouni; with an historical sketch of the city of Geneva; serving to illustrate the models of these two places. London, Whittingham, 1817. In-8°, paperback, untrimmed, in a modern blue half morocco slipcase, ribbed spine, gilt fillets and title on spine. First edition of this very rare brochure published on the occasion of the exhibition of wood-carved relief plans by J. B. Troye in London. Illustrated with a fold-out panorama of Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles de Chamonix, and two plans of Geneva on a fold-out plate. Pages 5 to 12 describe Chamonix and Mont-Blanc, pages 13 to 22 the city of Geneva. The text pages are stained and the upper corner of pages 5 to 8 are missing. Jean-Baptiste Troye was a Swiss miniaturist active in the early nineteenth century. He was a pupil of the geologist and chemist Charles-François Exchaquet, who produced the first accurate relief models (in wood) of the Mont Blanc range, part of the Valais and the St Gotthard group. He emigrated to London and exhibited his own relief plans of the Mont Blanc range in Soho, at 20 Frith Street, where Mozart lived. Perret, 4327-A - ACL p. 317 - Meckly 203 - Montagnier (2nd edition)