Author: Murchison, R. and E. de Verneuil and A. von Keyserling.
Title: Geologie des europäischen Rußlands und des Urals von R. Murchison, C. v. Verneuil und A. v. Keyserling, bearbeitet von Gustav Leonhard.
Description: Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1848. 8vo (23.8 x15.0 cm). Steel-engraved frontispiece (tissue guarded), 634 pp.; one folded partly coloured chart with geological profiles, one folded chromolithographed geological map with 16 different colours, Later half calf over patterned boards. Label with gilt title on the spine, gilt armorial vignette on front board. = Rare early geological monograph on the geology, palaeontology and mineralogy of the european part of Russia in the only German edition, translated and corrected by the famous German geologist Gustav Leonhard. DSB, for all three authors: "Not only did the two geologists - who were intermittently joined by Keyserling - verify Murchison's systems for European Russia, but on the second tour Murchison discovered and Verneuil made the fossil analyses of a new formation in Perm, hence called the Permian system. The large geological map is quite detailed and encompasses Scandinavia, Poland, and several other adjacent countries. Three library stamps on the title page, two very old ones from Berlin, and a later one in cyrillic; the latter also in the lower margin of p. 17 (there cancelled in Russian), and on the map verso. Text, plate, and map rectos clean. A very good copy. DSB 10, p. 584; DSB 13, p. 620; Ward & Carozzi, 1623 (English and French editions).

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