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CHARPENTIER, Jean de (1786-1855). Essai sur les glaciers et sur le terrain erratique du bassin du Rhone. Lausanne: Marc Ducloux, 1841.
8o (212 x 139 mm). Folding map, 8 lithographed plates (all but one folding), illustrations in text. Contemporary marbled boards (a little wear to extremities). Provenance: Gerard De Geer (ink stamp on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of this classic work on the phenomenon of erratic blocks and the function of glaciers in transporting them. "Although Louis Agassiz [see lot ***, HFN 17] is usually credited with originating the theory of the Ice Age, the true progenitor of glacial geology was Charpentier" (Norman). Ward-Carozzi 474; Norman 462.
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FIRST EDITION of this classic work on the phenomenon of erratic blocks and the function of glaciers in transporting them. "Although Louis Agassiz [see lot ***, HFN 17] is usually credited with originating the theory of the Ice Age, the true progenitor of glacial geology was Charpentier" (Norman). Ward-Carozzi 474; Norman 462.