Author: Nyst, P.
Title: Description des coquilles et des polypiers fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la Belgique, en réponse a la question suivante: faire la description des coquilles et des polypiers fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la Belgique, et donner l'indication précise des localités et des systèmes de roches dans lesquels ils se trouvent.
Description: Bruxelles, Académie Royale Belgique, 1843-[1845]. 4to (27.1 x 21.0 cm). 697 pp.; 15 engraved plates. 19th-century red quarter calf over patterned boards. Spine with for raised bands with gilt ornaments, elaborate gilt ornaments at head and foot, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = First edition of an important work on the marine deposits (Oligocene to Pliocene) of Belgium (North Sea basin) by the geologist, palaeontologist, and malacologist Pierre Henri Nyst (1813-1880). The work includes the original descriptions and illustrations of many new and rare species. This is an offprint from the Academy's Annales, volume 17. Another, second edition, published two years later, had 675 text pages and 49 plates. Boards a bit worn, binding a bit weak; rear free endpaper blank. A very good copy. Caprotti II, p. 43 (207); Nissen ZBI, 2996.

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