Author: Eschwege, W. L. Von
Title: Beiträge zur Gebirgskunde Brasiliens.
Description: Berlin, G. Reimer, 1832. 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm). xiv, 488 pp.; four engraved maps of which one coloured) (34 x 110 cm). Later mock leather. Spine with black label with gilt title. Edges orange. = This work, dedicated to Alexander von Humboldt, contains the first geological map of Brazil. It was written by the German geologist Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), who stayed in Brazil from 1810 to 1821. Zittel: "Ueber Brasilien entwarf Von Eschwege das erste, allerdings noch recht unvollkommene geologische Gemälde...". Three maps are geological maps and profiles; the hand-coloured map is a petrographic map dated 1831, with 16 different colours. Apart from the later, plain, functional, binding, a very good and fresh copy. Barbo de Moraes I, p. 293-294; Iglesias p. 84 (14); Sabin, 22829; Zittel, Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie, p. 552. Not in Ward and Carozzi.

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