Author: Burat, A.
Title: Études sur les mines. Théorie des gites métallifères appuyée sur la description des principaux types du Harz, de la Saxe, des Provinces Rhenanes, de la Toscane, etc. [AND] Études sur les mines (supplément). Description de quelques gites métallifères de l'Algérie, de l'Andalusie (Espagne), du Taunus et du Westerwald (Prusse) et de la Toscane.
Description: Paris, Langlois et Leclercq, 1845-1846. Two volumes in one. 8vo. Title pages, 540 pp. (xvi, 358; [iii], 163); 11 [10; 1] fine, engraved plates and maps (tissue-guarded). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = A scarce regional description on the metalliferous layers of Europe, with the rare supplement, dealing with, for instance, Algeria and Spain. See Ward and Carozzi for the supplement. Written by the French geologist and mineralogist Amédée Burat (1809-1883). He also published the important Traité du gisement et exploration des Mines Utiles (1855). Compiler's note in pencil on the first blank recto. Some wear to the spine; scattered but mostly light, marginal spotting, otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked copy. Ward and Carozzi, 396.

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