BUCH, LEOPOLD von. - VOLCANOLOGY.

Ueber Erhebungscratere und Vulcane. (Gelesen in der K. Academie zu Berlin am 26. März 1835).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836.. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 37, Erstes Stück. Pp. 1-240. Entire issue offered. Von Buch's paper: pp. 169-190 a. 1 engraved plate. (Showing Strabo's Vesuv and Plinius's).

First printing of an importent paper on volcanoes, the science of which was von Buch's preferred in geology. He began as a Wernian, but gradually passed into the ranks of the Vulcanists.

Order-nr.: 44062