Author: Unger, F. [J. A. N.]
Title: Ueber fossile Pflanzen des Süsswasser-Kalkes und Quarzes. [AND] Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss des Leithakalkes namentlich der vegetabilischen Einschlüsse und der Bildungsgeschichte desselben.
Description: Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn (for the Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften), 1858. 4to (31.0 x 24.0 cm). 38 [12; 26] pp.; one large, folded coloured lithographed with a nice view of a cave, namely the "Steinbruch am Wildoner-Berge" and five tinted lithographed plates. Original printed front board. = Two seldom-seen papers by the Austrian palaeobotanist and zoologist Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger (1800-1870); published back-to-back in the academy's Denkschriften. The large "Steinbruch" plate is quite nice; the other plates show fossil plant parts and cell-structures. Uncut, with the volume's front board. Some light foxing, otherwise very good.

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