Author: Suess, E.
Title: La face de la terre (das Antlitz der Erde) par Ed. Suess traduit de l'Allemand, avec l'autorisation de l'auteur et annoté sous la direction de Emm. de Margerie avec une préface par Marcel Bertrand. Tome I-III (AND) Tables générales. (Complete).
Description: Paris, Armand Colin, 1897-1918. Three Volumes and Tables in five. 8vo. 3,733 pp. [I (1897) xv, 835; II (1900) 878; III(1-2) (1902-1911) xii, 956; III(3-4) (1913-1918) xi, 957-1724; "Tables" (1918) 258 pp. 667 text figures [I: 116; II: 128; III(1): 94; 3(2): 124 (numbered 95-216); 3(3): 92 (numbered 217-308); III(4): 115 (numbered 309-423], 14 maps and plates, several larger, folded, or coloured [I: 5; II: 2; III(1): 3; III(2): 4; III(3): 3; III(4): 4]; and a tissue-guarded portrait of Eduard Suess as frontispiece to Part III(4). Original uniform brown cloth. Gilt title on the spines. = The first French edition of this well-illustrated classic on world geology and stratigraphy by the eminent Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), discoverer of Gondwanaland and the Tethys ocean, and founder of the idea of the biosphere. This wonderful monograph is not merely a translation as it is greatly enlarged and most plates and figures are new and especially drawn for this edition. Many text figures are carefully hand-coloured; some are page-sized, making a division in plates and text figures rather arbitrary. Part III(1-4) is here bound in two; it is sometimes also found bound in four. The number of figures stated on the title of the first volume (122) is incorrect. Remnants of labels on the spines; cancelled library stamps on title pages, and several other page margins, rear board of volume III(1-2) slightly damaged, some staining visible on lower fore edges, but not inside; nevertheless, in all a very good, complete set, which due to the amount of new information should be preferred over the original edition. Cat. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 1270. Not in Ward and Carozzi.

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