Descrizione

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1866. 4to (31.0 x 24.5 cm). Title page, half-titles, chromolithographed frontispiece, iii-xvi, 161 pp.; three maps and views, of which one larger, folded, and two in chromolithography; several fine text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = An important, early, and well-illustrated account of the geology and palaeontology of the Cape Province, South Africa (with one uncoloured geological map), Saint Paul's Island in the Southern Indian Ocean (with one large folded, coloured geological-topographical map showing volcanism, as well as two views and two profiles); Java (the frontispiece showing the crater of the active Kawa Ratu volcano), and the isolated Stewart Atoll (Sikaiana, Solomon Islands) with a fine, coloured map with profiles and a peculiar rock formation with rich tropical plant growth. Uncut. A very good, clean copy. Rare. Nissen ZBI, 4750(4) [Pars].