Die Urwelt in Ihren Verschiedenen Bildungsperioden English title: The Primeval World in Various Developmental Periods

by Franz Unger

$26,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original half brown morocco over 19th-century marble paper boards Temporal development of Earth's surface through deep time, illustrated by some of the earliest printed visualizations of prehistoric science: tropical landscapes, primeval swamp forests, evolutionary storms, ancient botany and geology, and representations of reptilian and mammalian life culminating with the appearance of humanity on the final plate. A stunning tableau of our planet through the millennia

• Binding: Leather

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