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128 - GEOLOGY.— A collection of 10 pamphlets bound in one in-8 vol…
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GEOLOGY.— A collection of 10 pamphlets bound in one in-8 volume, 12 x 20 cm, in a contemporary Bradel-style cardboard binding of orange paper, the spine decorated with gilt faux-ribbing. A very fine copy. A few pages are discoloured. Caps slightly rubbed. Details: • Henry de MAGNEVILLE. First paper… on a limestone containing a large quantity of polyps… from Calvados. [Caen, Linnean Society of Calvados, 1824]. 30 pp. • Jules DESNOYERS. Observations on certain systems of the oolitic formation of north-western France, and in particular on an oolite containing ferns from Mamers, in the department of Sarthe. [Paris, Geological Society of France, 1825]. 72 pp., 1 table, 1 map and 2 plates, folded. The map, finely watercoloured, and the 2 lithographed plates are bound following the treatise by Dufrénoy and Élie de Beaumont. • Alexandre BRONGNIART. On Volcanoes and Volcanic Terrains. Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1829. 116 pp. • Léonce ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT. Extract from a series of studies on some of the upheavals of the Earth’s surface… [Strasbourg, F.-G. Levrault’s printing works, 1830]. 102 pp. • Armand DUFRÉNOY & Léonce ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT. Treatise on the Cantal and Mont-Dore massifs, and on the uplifts to which these mountains owe their present relief. Paris, Carillan-Gœury, July 1833. 96 pp., 2 folded maps, finely watercoloured. • Frédéric LE PLAY. Observations on the natural history and mineral wealth of Spain. Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1834. 80 pp., 1 folded plate. Illustrated with 6 views, including Gibraltar, engraved on a single plate. • Armand DUFRÉNOY. Treatise on the geological position of the principal iron mines in the eastern part of the Pyrenees, accompanied by considerations on the period of the Canigou uplift and on the nature of the Rancié limestone. Paris, Carilian-Gœury, 1834. 50 pp., 1 folded plate. • Édouard BLAVIER. Statistical and geological report on the mines and anthracite deposits of Maine. Paris, Carilian-Gœury, 1834. 26 pp. • Édouard VÈNE. Report on the presumed salt-bearing deposits at Fourtou and Sougraigne (Aude). [Paris, 1834]. 16 pp. Without the plate. • Jean de CHARPENTIER. Note on the probable cause of the transport of erratic boulders in Switzerland. Paris, Carilian-Gœury, 1835. 20 pp. - Experts: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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