Author: Agassiz, L.
Title: Etudes sur les glaciers. Dessinés d'apres nature et lithographiés par J[ose]ph Bettannier.
Description: Neuchatel, H. Nicolet, 1840 [REPRINT, London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966]. Folio (43.3 x 29.2 cm). 18 mostly tinted plates of which the first 14 with overlays. Brown cloth with gilt title on the front board. = Louis Agassiz' classic work on glaciers, in the French edition which was published one year ahead of the German edition. This is a fine reprint, with the plates tinted, and the overlays of the first 14 plates accurately reproduced. The last four plates never had overlays. This is only the atlas. A text volume is not included. Apparently, it was not reprinted. A very good, clean copy. Horblit, 1; PMM, 309; Ward and Carozzi, 12.

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