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CHARPENTIER, JEAN DE. Essai sur les Glaciers et sur le Terrain Erratique du Bassin du Rhône. 8 lithographed plates; folding lithographed map. [2], x, 358, [2], [359]-363 [i. e., 362] pages, including errata leaf. 8vo, original 1/4 cloth, front joint and top of spine chipped; 19th-century stamp and signature on front endpapers; contents clean. Lausanne, 1841
first edition of a work on glacial geology based on the author's studies of the Rhone Valley. Norman 462. With the stamp on the title verso of the pioneering American geophysicist Harry Fielding Reid (1859-1944), who developed the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquake mechanics. DSB XI, 361-62.
