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GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES Louis Agassiz 1867 reprint Hardcover Near Fine
By Agassiz, Louis
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Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1967 reprint. 317 pp, numerous small illustrations white on black. Small green cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine. Former owner's name and bookplate on FEP, first few pages are loose but attached. Near Fine.

Contents include:
  • America The Old World
  • The Silurian Beach
  • The Fern Forests Of The Carboniferous Period
  • Mountains And Their Origin
  • The Growth of Continents
  • The Geological Middle Age
  • The Tertiary Age, And Its Characteristic Animals
  • The Formation of Glaciers
  • Internal Structure and Progression of Glaciers
  • External Appearance of Glaciers
Louis Agassiz is world renowned as the father of glaciology but his genius did not stop there, he was a famous geologist, embryologist, paleontologist and teacher. Here are collected several of his classic geological sketches. 

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