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FOUQUE, Ferdinand André (1828-1904) and Auguste Michel LEVY. Mémoires pour servir a l'explication de la carte géologique détaillée de la France. Minéralogie micrographique. Roches éruptives françaises. Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. 2 volumes (text and plates), 4° (306 x 235mm and 351 x 262mm). 2 plates in vol. I, one a chromolithograph, and 55 chromolithographed plates in vol. II, each with a printed tissue guard, half titles (guards torn away, but preserved, on plates 31 & 34 and nearly torn away on plate 43, light offsetting). Contemporary brown half morocco, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few light scuff-marks). FIRST EDITION.

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FOUQUE, Ferdinand André (1828-1904) and Auguste Michel LEVY. Mémoires pour servir a l'explication de la carte géologique détaillée de la France. Minéralogie micrographique. Roches éruptives françaises. Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. 2 volumes (text and plates), 4° (306 x 235mm and 351 x 262mm). 2 plates in vol. I, one a chromolithograph, and 55 chromolithographed plates in vol. II, each with a printed tissue guard, half titles (guards torn away, but preserved, on plates 31 & 34 and nearly torn away on plate 43, light offsetting). Contemporary brown half morocco, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few light scuff-marks). FIRST EDITION.
KURR, Johann Gottlob von. Das Mineralreich in Bildern, edited by Dr A. Kenngott. Esslingen: J.F. Schreiber, 1878. 4° (326 x 208mm). 24 lithographed, 23 coloured and finished by hand. Original cloth-backed chromolithographed pictorial boards (corners a little rubbed). A good copy of the third, and best, edition.

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