Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien

by Abraham Gottlob Werner

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1774. First edition, rare, of Werner’s first published work and the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy the ‘fossils’ in the title refer to anything removed from the ground . “Although Werner is best known for his contribution to the founding of geology as a science, he first achieved recognition as a mineralogist. He considered mineralogy to be the basis

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