Author: Élie de Beaumont, [J. B. A. L.] L. Title: Observations géologiques sur les differents formations qui, dans le système des Vosges, séparent la formation Houillère de celle du Lias.
Description: Paris, Huzard, 1828. 8vo (20.0 x 12.8 cm). vii, 199 pp.; three folded engraved geological profiles. Later pebbled green half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. = This is as far as we know the earliest work by the French geologist Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874). It deals with the stratigraphy of the Mesozoic (Triassic) of eastern France, and was published when he was an assistant of Brochant de Villiers whom he would succeed as professor of geology at the École des Mines in 1835. This work was published in the famous Annales des Mines, but this is a very rare offprint, with a new preface by the author. The small, oval stamp of another famous geologist, Louis Agassiz, on the title page. Some peculiar spotting on pp. 48-49 and adjacent leaves, as if someone spilled ink, but the text well readable. Otherwise only a few small spots. A very good copy. Ward and Carozzi, 732.
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