Geologie - - Lamarck, Jean Baptiste.

Geology - - Lamarck, Jean Baptiste. Hydrogeology, or Inquiry into the Influence of Water on the Changes of the Earth's Surface. Translated from the French and annotated by E. F. Wrede. Berlin, G. C. Nauk, 1805. title, VIII, 294 p. 20.5 x 11.5 cm. Cardboard binding of the time (dusty, joints with small lesions). First German edition. - Cf. Poggendorff I, 1353f. (with the French first edition of 1802). - Lamarck (1744-1829) was "first officer, then director of the herbaria of the Cabinet d'histoire naturelle and since 1792 prof. d. zoology at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle." (Poggendorff). - Only partially lightly browned, title with two stamps of an old military library. - Bound: Ernst Friedrich Wrede.Attempt to answer the prize question: Does electricity act on substances that ferment; and how does it promote or hinder fermentation and change the products thereof? How could the art of making wine, brewing beer and vinegar, and distilling the spirit of wine be perfected through electrical matter? which has been raised by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin for some time. Berlin, Unger, 1804. 56 pp. - First edition. - Poggendorff II, 1369. - Somewhat dog-eared. *