Geological sections across the Himalayan Mountains, from Wangtu-bridge on the river Sutlej to Sungdo on the Indus: with an account of the formations in Spiti, accompanied by a revision of all the known fossils from that district.

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Calcutta, The Government of India, 1865. Large 8vo. 154 pp.; frontispiece map and eight lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = An important, early - perhaps first - paper on the rich faunas of the Spiti formations which, subsequently, where the subject of many palaeontological papers. In this work, however, the author already described and illustrated many invertebrates. The author is the Moravian zoologist and palaeontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech Stolicka (1838-1874). "Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes. . In 1862 Stoliczka joined the Geological Survey of India (GSI) under the British Government in India after being recruited by Dr Thomas Oldham (1816-1878). In Calcutta he was assigned the job of documenting the Cretaceous fossils of southern India and published them in the Palaeontologia Indica, along with William Thomas Blanford. By May 1873 this work was completed with four volumes totalling nearly 1500 quarto size pages with 178 plates" (Wikipedia). The first plate contains brachiopods, all others illustrate molluscs, in particular ammonites and bivalves, but also gastropods, etc. This is Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 5(1). According to the wrapper text, in the rear there should be a paper on gypsum from the same region, to start on p. 153, but Stoliczka's work runs beyond that, to page 154, and only another, coloured map of the region, showing the gypsum distribution, is present. Uncut. Wrappers soiled and detached, otherwise very good.…

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Title
Geological sections across the Himalayan Mountains, from Wangtu-bridge on the river Sutlej to Sungdo on the Indus: with an account of the formations in Spiti, accompanied by a revision of all the known fossils from that district.
Author
Stoliczka, F.
Binding
Soft cover

Antiquariaat Schierenberg

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Antiquariaat Schierenberg now undertakes all activities previously undertaken by Elsevier Antiquarian Dept., and Dieter Schierenberg BV of which Dieter Schierenberg was General Manager. We specialize in rare, old and illustrated books and periodicals on Natural History, Biology, Earth Sciences, Voyages, Scientific Expeditions, Physical Geography, Anthropology, Travel (mostly outside Europe), Science, the History of Science and beautiful big colour plate books in these fields. We have one of the largest stocks in the world within our field with about 7.000 different periodical titles (about 1.000.000 volumes) and about 25.000 rare books. We have experience of over 40 years, having worked in these science subjects under different names : Junk Antiquariaat (Periodicals Dept.) Dekker & Nordemann Antiquarian Dept., Elsevier Antiquarian Dept and Dieter Schierenberg BV. Please send your special want lists within our field and of course we are also interested in receiving offers for sale or in exchange from single items to entire libraries.…

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