Author: Élie de Beaumont, [J. B. A. L.] L.
Title: Etude sur l'utilité agricole et sur les gisements géologiques du phosphore.
Description: Paris, Mme Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1857. 8vo (22.6 x 14.2 cm). Half title, title page, 127 pp. Later wrappers with original printed title mounted. = A rare work on the mining of this important mineral for the use of agriculture, by the great French geologist Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874). This is an offprint from the Mémoires de la Société Impériale et Centrale d'Agriculture for the year 1856. Signed by the author on the halftitle and with separate pagination. Uncut. Small red library stamp on title, otherwise good.

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