Hausmann, J. F. L. - Ueber die Bildung des Harzgebirges. Ein geologische Versuch.

Göttingen, Dieterich, 1842. 4to (25.3 x 20.8 cm). 156 pp.; 12 wood-engravings in the text, one engraved, folded hand-coloured plate with geological profiles in 11 different colours. Original grained leather spine cover with paper label, marbled boards; speckled edges. = The rare separately published edition, with hand-coloured profiles. This work is more common as part of an issue of the Abhandlungen der Physicalischen Classe der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, and/or without the plate with profiles coloured. Johan Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (1782-1859) was professor of mineralogy at the University of Göttingen. This is his main geological contribution to the Harz Mountains (Central Germany). He also published a fundamental contribution to the crystal growth, Untersuchungen über die Formen der leblosen Natur, and Reise durch Skandinavien in five volumes (1811-1818), as well as a Handbuch der Mineralogie (1813). Some foxing in the text, the plate lightly toned. In all a good copy. Not in Ward and Carozzi (listing several other works by Hausmann).

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