Author: Leonhard, K. C. von
Title: Grundzüge der Geognosie und Geologie. von Dr. Gustav Leonhard. Vierte vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Nach des Verfassers Tode besorgt durch Dr. Rudolf Hoernes.
Description: Leipzig, C. F. Winter, 1889. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm). xi, 980 pp.; 257 text figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = First published half a century earlier by the German mineralogist Karl Cäsar Von Leonhard (1779-1862) in 1830, this fourth and final edition was much expanded by the Austrian malacologist and palaeontologist Rudof Hoernes (1850-1912), reflecting the enormous growth of geoscience in the second half of the 19th century. Front board cover with a thin crack, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Ward & Carozzi, 1374 (1831 second edition).

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