Author: Göppert, H. R.
Title: Fossile Flora des Übergangsgebirges. Floram fossilem formationis transitionis.
Description: Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, 1852. 4to (29.7 x 22.4 cm). Two titles (German and Latin), 299 pp.; 44 lithographed plates (several larger, folded, and/or tinted). Near contemporary dark blue pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = A major contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Flora of Germany, by the German botanist and palaeontologist Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert, or Goeppert (1800-1884), and well-illustrated. Includes the descriptions of new species. Published as supplement to the academy's Verhandlungen, or Novorum Actorum. Provenance: the Société géologique de France with their name in small gilt letters on the spine foot, and their oval stamp on the Latin title. Light shelf wear. Foxing to the plates, as usual, otherwise very good. Pritzel, 3442.

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