Buy this book on-line Goeppert, Heinrich Robert (1800-1884) : Abhandlung, eingesandt auf die Preisfrage: "Man suche durch genaue Untersuchungen darzuthun, ob die Steinkohlenlager aus Pflanzen entstanden sind, welche an den Stellen, wo jene gefunden werden, wuchsen [...]"Leiden [und Düsseldorf]: A. Arnz, 1848.
4to. Pp. [2],xviii,[2,blank],300, 33 figs. (few coloured by hand) on 22 lithogr. plates (incl. 6 fold, ), 1 fold. plan. Orig. printed boards. A very good copy. - "Eine im Jahre 1846 mit der goldenen Medaille und einer Prämie von 150 Gulden gekrönte Preisschrift.": - "Goeppert's entry in the Haarlem Academy's prize competition concerning th question whether coal seams are authochthonous or allochthonous was awarded the double prize". (Dict. Sci. Biogr. V, p. 441). The author was one of the founders of paleobotany, "the principal central European paleobotanist of the mid-nineteenth century [and] must be ranked with such outstanding figures as Brongniart and Seward (Andrews p. 294). "Seine Monographien gehören zum Besten, was über fossile Pflanzen geschrieben wurde" (Zittel, p. 82.). Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Goeppert, Heinrich Robert (1800-1884) : Abhandlung, eingesandt auf die Preisfrage: "Man suche durch genaue Untersuchungen darzuthun, ob die Steinkohlenlager aus Pflanzen entstanden sind, welche an den Stellen, wo jene gefunden werden, wuchsen [...]". Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, fine bindings, livres d'occasion, incunabula and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |