Author: Heer, O.
Title: Die Urwelt der Schweiz.
Description: Zürich, Friedrich Schultheß, 1865. Thick 8vo. xxix, 662 pp., one double-sized full colour map, seven tinted steel engravings (one as frontispiece), and 11 lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth over black marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. = The first edition of a book that was also published in a French (1872), and English (1876) edition. The tinted plates show mainly Mesozoic landscapes, the engraved plates figure fossils, in particular plants and insects (Coleoptera, mostly). The author, Oswald Heer was not only a palaeontologist, but also a botanist and entomologist. Armorial bookplate mounted on front free endpaper recto, spine ends repaired, library stamp remnants and paper repair on the title page, otherwise a good copy. Nissen ZBI, 6600.

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