Author: Boue, Emile
Title: Essai Geologique Sue L'Ecosse
Description: Mme V Courcier, . Unbound as Original. This an original copy of the firstedition of the first work published on the Geology of Scotland. Copletely uncut and whout boards as originally issued - with the remains of a title label on the spine. Boué decided at the beginning of 1814 to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh and learned English. Through the influence of one of his teachers, the mineralogist Robert Jameson, he became interested in geology and botany, which he studied while traveling throughout Scotland. In 1815 he published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal an unsigned article on a crystallized hyacinth found in gneiss along the Caledonian Canal. On 15 September 1817, he received the M.D. after having defended a thesis on the botanical geography of Scotland. Although Boué continued his medical studies in Paris (1818-1819), Berlin (1820), and Vienna (1821), he decided to devote himself exclusively to geology and traveled through the Auvergne, the south of France, and almost all of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. His Essai geologique sur l'Écosse, dedicated to Jameson, appeared in 1820. (wiki). Seven folding lithographed plates & two folding maps (one hand-colored). x, [2], 519, [2] p & plates amd maps (2). The book is clean and tight in the sewn binding though the plate section is only just held by the cords. A brown mark on the half title diminishes and dissapears over the first few pages. See scans and email for more. . Very Good (as such)

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