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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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