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AGASSIZ, Louis (1807-after 1847). Études sur les Glaciers. Neuchatel: O. Petitpierre (text) and H. Nicolet (plates) for the author, in association with Jent and Gassmann of Soleure, 1840.
2 volumes including atlas, 2° (470 x 314mm) and 8° (256 x 160mm). Text volume: half-title, title, dedication, explanation of plates, index and errata. (Occasional light spotting.) Later half morocco, original green wrappers bound in. Atlas volume: 18 lithographic plates including 18 views on 17 leaves, 15 with explanatory overlay keys on guards, 1 lithographic plate of rock samples, all by Nicolet after J. Bettannier. (Occasional spotting, lacking portion of blank margn of first overlay key, just affecting border.) Modern half morocco, original yellow front wrapper bound in (wrapper repaired in three places).
FIRST EDITION of the study of glaciers by this celebrated Swiss naturalist. His early work as an ichthyologist earned him a place as professor of zoology at Neuchatel, where he wrote the present work. A second edition, in German, was published in 1841. Agassiz's observations broke new ground in describing the development, formation, movemant and effect of glaciers: he continued his detailed research and published Système glaciaire, ou recherches sur les glaciers in Paris in 1847. This work took him to France and England before he finally settled in America in 1846. he is described in the Biographie Générale as "un des naturalistes les plus zélés pour la science".
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2 volumes including atlas, 2° (470 x 314mm) and 8° (256 x 160mm). Text volume: half-title, title, dedication, explanation of plates, index and errata. (Occasional light spotting.) Later half morocco, original green wrappers bound in. Atlas volume: 18 lithographic plates including 18 views on 17 leaves, 15 with explanatory overlay keys on guards, 1 lithographic plate of rock samples, all by Nicolet after J. Bettannier. (Occasional spotting, lacking portion of blank margn of first overlay key, just affecting border.) Modern half morocco, original yellow front wrapper bound in (wrapper repaired in three places).
FIRST EDITION of the study of glaciers by this celebrated Swiss naturalist. His early work as an ichthyologist earned him a place as professor of zoology at Neuchatel, where he wrote the present work. A second edition, in German, was published in 1841. Agassiz's observations broke new ground in describing the development, formation, movemant and effect of glaciers: he continued his detailed research and published Système glaciaire, ou recherches sur les glaciers in Paris in 1847. This work took him to France and England before he finally settled in America in 1846. he is described in the Biographie Générale as "un des naturalistes les plus zélés pour la science".
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