拍品 124
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LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716). Protogaea sive de prima facie telluris et antiquissimae historiae vestigiis, edited by Christian Ludwig Scheidt, Göttingen: sumptibus Ioh. Guil. Schmidii, 1749, 4°, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black with engraving of the Hanoverian arms, 12 folding engraved plates, 3 by N. Seeländer (title and dedication leaf short at margins and possibly supplied from another copy, title perforation and other library markings, title and preliminaries browned and dampstained at upper margin, plates stamped on verso, several with marginal dampstains), modern calf-backed marbled boards [Honeyman 1976; Hoover 521; Norman 1328] Provenance: Pierre Duhem (book label); JCL

细节
LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716). Protogaea sive de prima facie telluris et antiquissimae historiae vestigiis, edited by Christian Ludwig Scheidt, Göttingen: sumptibus Ioh. Guil. Schmidii, 1749, 4°, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black with engraving of the Hanoverian arms, 12 folding engraved plates, 3 by N. Seeländer (title and dedication leaf short at margins and possibly supplied from another copy, title perforation and other library markings, title and preliminaries browned and dampstained at upper margin, plates stamped on verso, several with marginal dampstains), modern calf-backed marbled boards [Honeyman 1976; Hoover 521; Norman 1328] Provenance: Pierre Duhem (book label); JCL

拍品专文

A work on the formation of the earth's crust, the most important part of which was the postulation of a sequence of strata containing fossils, with the simultaenous diminution of the ocean by evaporation.