Vulkanen-Atlas zur Naturgeschichte der Erde von K. C. von Leonhard, Geheimerrath und Professor and der Univertität zu Heidelberg.
Stuttgart: Verlag der E Schweitzerbart’schen Buchhandlung, [on cover:] 1844. First edition. In publisher’s grey, printed wrappers. (4) p. and 15 illustrated plates of which 4 coloured. Spine slightly
worn, with collection vignette to tail. Cover and pages somewhat chipped at edges, stained. Overall in very good
condition.
Scarce atlas with maps of fifteen volcanos (and surroundings) all over the world: Mount Aetna; Stromboli; Eyjafjallajökull;
Santorini; Azores (Porto do Ilheo, St. Michael); Kamchatka; Java; Canary Islands; Ascension Island and the Galápagos
Islands; Chile; Mexico, Ecuador (Quito) and Bolivia; Volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands, the Caribbean, the Hawaiian
Islands and Japan.
Compiled by Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (1779–1862) German mineralogist and geologist.
Scarce, especially in original wrappers.
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Price: €2,000.00