Author: Barrande, J.
Title: Du maintien de la nomenclature, établi par M. Murchison.
Description: Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1880. 8vo (23.8 x 16.0 cm). 8 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Rare pamphlet on the usefulness and validity of Murchison's nomenclature, with Barrande's own stamp in a corner "Hommage de l'auteur". He states: "Elle est convenable et je propose de la maintenir" (applaudissements). Published in the results of the Congrès Internationale de Géologie (1878), here as offprint, with separate wrappers. We added his Bemerkungen über einige neue Fossilien aus der Umgebung von Rokitzan im silurischen Becken von Mittel-Böhmen (1856). 6 pp. (with repairs) and Ueber die organischen Ablagerungen in den Luft-Kammern der Orthoceraten (1859). 19 pp., one folding lithographed plates and original printed wrappers. Marginal repair to the top edge of the front wrapper, otherwise very good.

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