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Geology - Naumann, Carl Friedrich. Textbook of geognosy. 2 text volumes and atlas in 4 volumes. With 346 wood engravings and 70 lithographed plates on rolled China. Leipzig, Engelmann, 1850-1854. XI, 1000 pp.; XIV, 1222 pp. 23 x 15 cm (text)/ 26.5 x 20 cm (atlas). Contemporary half-leather bindings with gilt spines and 2 original half-linen folders with mounted title label (rubbed, corners bumped, joints partly restored; folder cover somewhat torn inside, 1 clasp loose). First edition. - Poggendorff II, 257 - NDB XVIII, 765 - Katalog Bergakademie Freiberg 478 - "Recognized as the most complete and thorough compendium of this science, which has served as a guide for all students of geology for decades." (Zittel 219). At the same time, it was the first textbook to devote significant space to questions of geotectonics, with Naumann partly going beyond Alexander von Humboldt. "His 'Lehrbuch' contained all of the scientific information known about earthquakes at that time. Naumann held that certain earthquakes occurred independently of any volcanic activity and might therefore be termed 'plutonic'. This view was in opposition to that of Humboldt, who believed earthquakes and volcanoes to be merely different manifestations of the same causes ... Naumann's most important work." (DSB IX, 620). - The plates with illustrations of the most important key fossils from the animal kingdom for the individual geological formations. - Text browned and foxed, plates browned in margins, title and cover labels with old stamp. VAT: *
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Geology - Naumann, Carl Friedrich. Textbook of geognosy. 2 text volumes and atlas in 4 volumes. With 346 wood engravings and 70 lithographed plates on rolled China. Leipzig, Engelmann, 1850-1854. XI, 1000 pp.; XIV, 1222 pp. 23 x 15 cm (text)/ 26.5 x 20 cm (atlas). Contemporary half-leather bindings with gilt spines and 2 original half-linen folders with mounted title label (rubbed, corners bumped, joints partly restored; folder cover somewhat torn inside, 1 clasp loose). First edition. - Poggendorff II, 257 - NDB XVIII, 765 - Katalog Bergakademie Freiberg 478 - "Recognized as the most complete and thorough compendium of this science, which has served as a guide for all students of geology for decades." (Zittel 219). At the same time, it was the first textbook to devote significant space to questions of geotectonics, with Naumann partly going beyond Alexander von Humboldt. "His 'Lehrbuch' contained all of the scientific information known about earthquakes at that time. Naumann held that certain earthquakes occurred independently of any volcanic activity and might therefore be termed 'plutonic'. This view was in opposition to that of Humboldt, who believed earthquakes and volcanoes to be merely different manifestations of the same causes ... Naumann's most important work." (DSB IX, 620). - The plates with illustrations of the most important key fossils from the animal kingdom for the individual geological formations. - Text browned and foxed, plates browned in margins, title and cover labels with old stamp. VAT: *
