ELEMENTS DE GEOLOGIE. (Seconde Partie Des Elements d'Histoire Naturelle.)

by Omalius d'Holloy, J.J., d'

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Paris:: Levrault,, 1835. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear hinge reinforced; periodic light foxing; otherwise condition good.. + Table Analytique + Table Alphabetique. With hand-colored `Carte Geognostique de la France et de quelques Contrees Voisines' + 2 fold-out charts containing 3 tables. 2nd edn. of 1831 first issue. ||| Omalius (1783-1875), pupil of Cuvier & Lacepede; Belgian geologist `known for his systematic subdivisions of geologic formations in the Earth's crust...authority on geology of Netherlands & Belgium...did work on metamorphism & on ethnography'--Ency. Brit. ||| He was Governor of Namur Province (1815), member of Belgian Senate; served 3 times as President of Belgian Academy of Sciences; President, Geological Society of France (1852); President, Congress of Pre-historic Archaeology (Brussels, 1872). ||| Located in Harvard Library; not in Library of Congress.