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Geology - Agassiz, Louis. Studies on the glaciers. At the expense of the author. Text and plates in 2 volumes. With 18 tinted lithographic plates by J. Bettannier, 14 of which with transparent lithographic cover sheet with legend, together 32 plates. Text volume: Solothurn, Jent & Gaßmann, 1841. XII, 326 p., 1 leaf. 24 x 15 cm. Half leather binding (around 1900) with 2 colored spine labels and gilt spine/ Plates: Neuchâtel, Nicolet, 1840. 46 x 32 cm. Half leather binding of the time with gilt-stamped spine title. First German edition, conceived at the same time as the French edition and published a few months after it. - PMM 309 (to the French edition) - Dibner 98 - Horblit 1 - Sparrow, Milestones of Science 2 - The German text was edited by C. Vogt under Agassiz's auspices. - Fundamental work of glacial geology and ice age theory, thus, despite Agassiz's later opposition, also paving the way for Darwin's theories. - Good copy, with the very rare plate volume.
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Geology - Agassiz, Louis. Studies on the glaciers. At the expense of the author. Text and plates in 2 volumes. With 18 tinted lithographic plates by J. Bettannier, 14 of which with transparent lithographic cover sheet with legend, together 32 plates. Text volume: Solothurn, Jent & Gaßmann, 1841. XII, 326 p., 1 leaf. 24 x 15 cm. Half leather binding (around 1900) with 2 colored spine labels and gilt spine/ Plates: Neuchâtel, Nicolet, 1840. 46 x 32 cm. Half leather binding of the time with gilt-stamped spine title. First German edition, conceived at the same time as the French edition and published a few months after it. - PMM 309 (to the French edition) - Dibner 98 - Horblit 1 - Sparrow, Milestones of Science 2 - The German text was edited by C. Vogt under Agassiz's auspices. - Fundamental work of glacial geology and ice age theory, thus, despite Agassiz's later opposition, also paving the way for Darwin's theories. - Good copy, with the very rare plate volume.
