Author: Thury, [L. E. F.] Héricart-Ferrand Vicomte de
Title: Notice sur les mines d'asphalte, bitume et lignites de Lobsann. Arrondissement de Weissembourg (Département du Bas-Rhin).
Description: Paris, Didot, 1838. 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). 51 pp., three large, double-folded lithographed plates, including a map coloured in outline and two nice hand-coloured geological profiles called "Coupe géologique de la Chaine des Vosges de Bitche à Sultz et Seltz sur Rhin". Later wrappers with the original title mounted. = An early, well-illustrated scientific contribution on economically important minerals of the French Alsace and Vosges region. Damp stain in the upper right part of the text leaves - very weak on the plates, otherwise very good, clean, unmarked. Cat. BM(NH) 2, p. 829.

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