Geologie der Kaiser Franz Josefs Hochquellen-Wasserleitung. Eine Studie in den Tertiär-Bildungen am Westrande des alpinen Theiles der Niederung von Wien.

Karrer, F.

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Wien, Hölder, 1877. Large 4to (33.5 x 25.5 cm). xiii, 420 pp.; 96 text engravings, 20 folded profiles, maps and lithographed plates, mostly coloured and several very large (size up to 32 x 100 cm), seven folded charts and tables. Later half cloth with paper label on the spine. = Very rare first and only edition on the geology, hydrology and palaeontology of the "Wiener Becken", and a masterpiece of its kind. Together with Eduard Suess, Karrer was the founder of palaeontology in Austria. Several plates were drawn by Suess. Plate I - a long, quadruple-folded, hand-coloured sheet - shows various views of the mountain, a map of the area, and a profile from the mountain all the way down to Vienna, which greatly depended upon the clean water from the mountain. Eleven other sheets with maps and/or profiles are quadruple-folded. One plate shows mainly new species of well-preserved molluscs, described by the Austrian malacologist Theodor Fuchs (1842-1925), and some foraminifers; another plate contains Foraminifera only. Two hand-coloured plates contain artefacts (Roman and older). The geological map of Vienna is very large and detailed. Also published as volume 9 of the Abhandlungen der geologischen Reichsanstalt. Uncut. A complete copy. Slight age-toning of the uncut fore-edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Neither in Nissen nor in Ward and Carozzi. Seller Inventory # 28719

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