Eugène Eudes- Deslongchamps [Eugène EUDES-DESLONGCHAMPS]
Documents sur la géologie de la Nouvele-Calédonie, suivis du catalogue des roches recueillies dans cette île par MM. Jouan et Emile Desplanches, et de la description des fossiles triasiques de l'île Hugon, dépendance de cette colonie. Avec une carte et une planche de fossiles[Documents on the Geology of New Caledonia, followed by a Catalogue of the Rocks Collected on the Island by Messrs Jouan and Émile Desplanches, and by a Description of the Triassic Fossils of Hugon Island, a Dependency of this Colony. With a Map and a Plate of Fossils]
F. Savy • A. Hardel|Paris • Caen 1864|14.2 x 22.5 cm|Broché
First edition illustrated with a folding map and a folding plate of fossils (cf. O'Reilly, Nouvelle-Calédonie, 486a).
Light waterstaining affecting the plate and the map at the end of the volume.
The palaeontologist Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830–1889) devoted most of his work to Normandy, his native region, but he also produced geological monographs based on collections assembled by other researchers, as is the case here.
€650