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DUFRENOY, Pierre Armand and Jean Baptiste Elie DE BEAUMONT. Mémoires pour servir à une description géologique de la France... Paris: Levrault, 1830-34. 2 vols. (only). 8o. 24 engraved folding plates, including 2 hand-colored. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the authors on half-title of second volume. Dufrenoy and Élie de Beaumont prepared the first modern geological map of France. Dufrenoy later became director of the École des Mines. Sold not subject to return. (2)
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DUFRENOY, Pierre Armand and Jean Baptiste Elie DE BEAUMONT. Mémoires pour servir à une description géologique de la France... Paris: Levrault, 1830-34. 2 vols. (only). 8o. 24 engraved folding plates, including 2 hand-colored. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the authors on half-title of second volume. Dufrenoy and Élie de Beaumont prepared the first modern geological map of France. Dufrenoy later became director of the École des Mines. Sold not subject to return. (2)