Observations sur l'Origine et la Formation des Pierres Figurees, Et sur celles qui, tant exterieurement qu'interieurement, ont une figure reguliere & determinee. Avec Figures.

Barrere, Pierre.

Verlag: Paris: Chez d'Houry, 1746

Beschreibung

Octavo: [6 including half-title], 67, [3]pp., Two folding engraved plates of fossils. Very good copy in contemporary boards rebacked in calf. Very scarce. Barrere was interested in the origin and the nature of fossils and described many from Catalonia and the Pyrenees. He proposed that the fossils of marine Molluscs proved the presence of an ancient ocean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GE003

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Observations sur l'Origine et la Formation ...

Verlag: Paris: Chez d'Houry

Erscheinungsdatum: 1746

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good