Author: RAUMER, Karl von. Title: Palästina.
Description: Leipzig, F.M. Brockhaus, 1835. Original boards, with red morocco title-label. With folding table and 2 folding plans. XII,346 pp. First edition. - Karl Georg von Raumer (1783 - 1865), a German geologist, was born in Wörlitz. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and at the mining academy in Freiberg as a student of Abraham Gottlob Werner. In 1811 he became professor of mineralogy at Breslau, and two years later, participated in the war of German liberation from French Napoleonic domination, 1813-1814. In 1819 he relocated as a professor to the University of Halle, then in 1827 settled at the University of Erlangen as a professor of natural history and mineralogy. Rohricht 376; Engelmann I, p.151; Tobler p. 218: Ein vortreffliches Handbuch.
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