Author: Savi, P.
Title: Sulla scorza del globo terrestre e sul modo di studiarla.
Description: Pisa, Fratelli, 1834. 8vo (20.5 x 13.1 cm). Half title and titlepage, 108 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A highly interesting and rare work by the Italian geologist (and ornithologist) Paolo Savi (1798-1871). "Savi was regarded as the father of Italian geology. He studied the geology of Monti Pisani and the Apuan Alps, explaining the metamorphic origin of the Carrara marble; he also contributed essays on the Miocene strata and fossils of Monte Bamboli, the iron-ores of Elba and other subjects. With Giuseppe Meneghini (1811-1889) he published memoirs on the stratigraphy and geology of Tuscany (1850-1851)" (Wikipedia). This work deals with geological periods, e.g., "Terreni primari, secondari, oolitico, terziari, subappennini, terreni moderni etc. Upper part foxed on the title and first ll. Apparently an offprint from the Nuovo Giornale de letterati di Pisa. Uncut. Handwritten text on cover; foxing to the first few leaves, otherwise a very good copy. We have never seen another copy. Neither in Ward and Carozzi, nor in Cat. BM(NH).

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