Vogelsang, Hermann Peter Joseph, Dr

Philosophie der Geologie und mikroskopische Gesteinsstudien

Bonn: Max Cohen & Sohn, 1867. 8vo, pp. [8], 229, [1]; 10 color lithographs, each with a descriptive leaf of text; original green cloth, leather label on spine; near fine throughout. A study of the minerals that make up rocks as viewed through the microscope. "The work contains an abundance of astute observations, which are among the most outstanding in this field of petrography and is adorned with a number of unsurpassed beautiful illustrations of microscopic thin sections of rock ..." (ADB XL, 155). Item #58532

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