A collection of 33 hand-coloured mineralogical maps of France prepared for the first geological atlas

by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine-Grimoald Monnet

$30,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

N.p. n.d., ca. 1766-1780. A unique collection of maps prepared for the first geological atlas of France. “These maps, so far as I know, were the first ever constructed to express the superficial distribution of minerals and rocks. The gifted Frenchman Guettard who produced them is thus the father of all the national Geological Surveys which have been instituted” Geikie, p. 115 . “In 1763 the

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