AGASSIZ, Louis (1807-1873). Etudes sur les Glaciers, Neuchâtel: for the author by Jent and Gassmann, 1840, 2 volumes, 8° and 2°, FIRST EDITION, 18 lithographed plates by Nicolet after Bettannier with 13 printed overlays only (of 14, first plate soiled, light marginal dampstaining, blind-stamp on title and one text leaf, accession number on dedication leaf), text volume in library cloth, plates unbound as issued in portfolio with original lithographed wrappers pasted on (soiled, covers detatched). [Horblit 1; Norman 17; PMM 309] (2)

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AGASSIZ, Louis (1807-1873). Etudes sur les Glaciers, Neuchâtel: for the author by Jent and Gassmann, 1840, 2 volumes, 8° and 2°, FIRST EDITION, 18 lithographed plates by Nicolet after Bettannier with 13 printed overlays only (of 14, first plate soiled, light marginal dampstaining, blind-stamp on title and one text leaf, accession number on dedication leaf), text volume in library cloth, plates unbound as issued in portfolio with original lithographed wrappers pasted on (soiled, covers detatched). [Horblit 1; Norman 17; PMM 309] (2)

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A milestone in the study of glaciers, studying the development, formation, movement and effect of glaciers. Agassiz believed there to have been a great fall in the world's temperature causing a great ice sheet across much of Northern Europe and he named this period the "Ice Age". His work had a great influence on Lyell and Darwin.

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