Das Antlitz der Erde

by Eduard Suess

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First edition

3 vols in 4. 12 plates, 168 text illus, and 12 color maps, most folding. 4to, cont. 1/2 red leather joints weak, spines repaired . Prag-Wien-Leipzig, 1888-1909. Vol 1 3rd edition , vol. 2 2nd edition , vol. 3, both parts 1st edition . The great masterpiece of structural geology. In the hands of one of the most accomplished of ... geologists ... crust-tectonics may be almost said to have been elevated into a new inductive philosophy of

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