Author: ZIMMERMANN, W.F.A.,
Title: De Aardbol en zijne Natuurwonderen. Een Volks-handboek over Natuurkundige Aardrijksbeschijving. Voor Nederlanders bewerkt naar de Hoogduitsch van W.F.A. Zimmermann. 2e, veel verm. en verb. druk. [Second much enlarged and revised edition].
Description: Leiden, Noothoven van Goor, 1868. 2 vols. Original calfbacked marbled boards, gilded titles on spines in compartments. (xvi), 535; (xviii), 486pp. 2 chromolithographed frontispieces, many steel-engraved illustrations in text, many full page survey maps of which some tinted, lithographed by F.J. Muller, Leiden, registers. NOTcalled-for in Royal Dutch Library, KB. Dutch language nineteenth century popular geo-physical description of the Globe and its natural phenomena: magnetism, volcanology, earthquakes, geology sedimentation, oceanography, drift of continents, polar regions, climate observation and change, polar light, etc. Good to very good copy. (endpapers a bit foxed).

Keywords: geophysics survey geology phenomena magnetism vulcanology earthscience natural physics geography agrogeology history astronimy