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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay. Grenoble, J. Cuchet; Paris, Nyon; Née de Masquelier, 1778 2 Volumes in-folio; Binding in half leather and hardback. Pages 4, XVIII, 2, 460, 4, Engraved vignette on title, several engraved vignettes in text. 20 engraved plates outside text, including one on double page, inserted in Atlas volume. Fine copy with wide margins. First Edition in-Folio. Important and splendid work by one of the founders of volcanology. D.S.B.: "Meanwhile, Faujas had been exploring the hilly districts of Vivarais and Velay in east-central France and found that the basalt there was also volcanic ... he embodied them in 1778 in a great folio work on the ancient volcanoes of Vivarais and Velay (accounts of other researches were included). The work established once and for all that basalt, a rock important scientifically because of its distinctive characteristics, its widespread occurrence, and the manner of its association with other kinds of rocks, was the product of volcanic action." Zittel: "The author's descriptions and illustrations of the extinct volcanoes are excellent, and have scarcely been surpassed in later publications. "En Français dans le Texte 169; DSB IV, p. 548; Hoover Coll. 294; Zittel, p. 46; Ward & Carozzi 779; Ebert 7369; Wellcome III, 12. 2 volumes Folio; Half leather and hardcover binding. Pages 4, XVIII, 2, 460, 4, Vignettes engraved on the title, several vignettes engraved in the text. 20 plates engraved outside the text, including one on double page, inserted in a volume of Atlas. Good copy with wide margins. First Edition in-Folio. Important and splendid work of one of the founders of volcanology. D.S.B.: "Meanwhile, Faujas had been exploring the hilly districts of Vivarais and Velay in east-central France and found that the basalt there was also volcanic ... he embodied them in 1778 in a great folio work on the ancient volcanoes of Vivarais and Velay (accounts of other researches were included). The work established once and for all that basalt, a rock important scientifically because of its distinctive characteristics, its widespread occurrence, and the manner of its association with other kinds of rocks, was the product of volcanic action." Zittel: "The author's descriptions and illustrations of the extinct volcanoes are excellent, and have scarcely been surpassed in later publications."

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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Recherches sur les volcans

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