Géologie, Minéralogie et Géographie Physique: text volume and atlas from the "Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837-1840
by DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien
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- A few very light spots in the text volume and its binding just wearing at extremities.
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About This Item
The geology section of the great Dumont d'Urville Antarctic expedition. The atlas volume here contains four superb coloured maps, two of them double-page geological maps of Australia and the South Pacific, the other two depicting geological details of Tasmania and Victoria, and the Straits of Magellan. The nine plates that follow are present in an early photographic form rather than as the usual lithographic plates: it has been suggested that these represent a further issue once the original lithographic printing had been exhausted.
This section was prepared by M.J. Grange from the materials recorded by the expedition's naturalists. Another volume of text was published six years later.
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- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4505121
- Title
- Géologie, Minéralogie et Géographie Physique: text volume and atlas from the "Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837-1840
- Author
- DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien
- Book Condition
- Used - A few very light spots in the text volume and its binding just wearing at extremities.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gide et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1848
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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