Fortis on the natural history of Italy 1802

ITALY. (2). FORTIS, ALBERT. Mémoires pour servir a l´histoire naturelle et principalement a l´oryctographie de l´Italie et des pays adjacens. I-II. Paris (chez J. J. Fuchs) l´an X (1802).

8:o. (4), (i)-ii, (1)-400, (1)-2 (lacks8 unpaginated pages with explanations to the plates and more errata), (5), 6-362 pp. 8 folding engraved plates (all).
New brown half calf, gilt spines, red upper edges, otherwise near uncut. Halftitle and title to vol. II mended in outer margin. 2 volumes.

Deals mostly with geology and fossiles in Italy and adjacent countries.

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