MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE NEUCHATEL. Premier Volume, in-Quarto, Avec Planches. Prospectus. caption title

by Louis Agassiz

$275 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Neuchatel, Switzerland : 21 Fevrier, 1835. Broadsheet. 29.5 x 22 cm., 2 pp. Faint old tidelines, short split at left margin, along fold. The Society was instituted, largely under Agassiz' auspices, in 1832, after Humboldt had assisted in finding a position for Agassiz at Neuchatel. This was the beginning of an immensely fruitful period for Agassiz, the most compelling period of his life. --DAB. A rare prospectus for the premier volume of a great natural history periodical. Item #65231

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