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Atlas zu H.G. Bronn's Lethaea Geognostica oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der für die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeichnendsten Versteinungen. Dritte, stark ver. Auflage.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, 1850-56. Folio. Unbound and not sewn. 123 pp. and 124 lithographed plates (1 in colour). Title-page brownspotted and with tears in margins all aroun. Part of orig. printed frontwrapper preserved. Most of the plates partly brownspotted, some with minor dampstains in corners and margins. A few plates (most heavely the first and last) with tears reaching the illustrations.
BMC I: 256. Pritzel 1178. This is only the atlasvolume to Bronn's great work. ""The first attempt at a Chronological Succession of fossil organisms is to be found in H.G. Bronn's Lethaea Geognostica. This work is a masterpiece of scholarship"" it summarises all that was previously known abot Stratigraphy and Paleontology. The most importent fossils types of all geological formation are shown ion the folio plates..."" (Zittel p. 364 ff.).
