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SCHLAGINTWEIT, Hermann and Adolph. Untersuchungen über die Physicalische Geographie der Alpen with Neue Untersuchungen über die Physicalische Geographie und die Geologie der Alpen and Atlas zu den Neuen Untersuchungen . . . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, and Gebr. Unger for Johann Ambrosius Barth and T. O. Weigel, 1850-54.
3 volumes including atlas, text 8° (266 x 180mm), atlas, 2° (537 x 365mm). Text volumes: Untersuchungen: 2 folding lithographic maps by C. Birck, 11 lithographic plates including 4 folding and 5 tinted lithographic views with their overlay keys, by H. Mützel, H. Drosse and C. Birck after the authors, letterpress folding table, numerous woodcut illustrations. Neue Untersuchungen: half-title, letterpress folding table. Atlas volume: title, list of plates, 22 views, maps, profiles and tables including 16 chromolithographic and tinted lithographic views on 11 leaves, mostly with explanatory overlay keys, by W. Loeillot, L. Kraatz and others after the authors, 7 chromolithographic maps and profiles, 2 lithographic tables and 2 letterpress tables. (Pp. 167-170 of Untersuchungen detached, some plates lightly spotted.) Text uniformly bound in near-contemporary half diced russia, spines gilt in five compartments. Atlas bound in contemporary cloth (rebacked and cornered, original spine laid down). FIRST EDITIONS of each work. Brunet V, 204 (Neue Untersuchungen: requires 8 lithographic views, but it is unclear whether these are in addition to, or incorporated in, the 22 plates of the atlas). (3)
3 volumes including atlas, text 8° (266 x 180mm), atlas, 2° (537 x 365mm). Text volumes: Untersuchungen: 2 folding lithographic maps by C. Birck, 11 lithographic plates including 4 folding and 5 tinted lithographic views with their overlay keys, by H. Mützel, H. Drosse and C. Birck after the authors, letterpress folding table, numerous woodcut illustrations. Neue Untersuchungen: half-title, letterpress folding table. Atlas volume: title, list of plates, 22 views, maps, profiles and tables including 16 chromolithographic and tinted lithographic views on 11 leaves, mostly with explanatory overlay keys, by W. Loeillot, L. Kraatz and others after the authors, 7 chromolithographic maps and profiles, 2 lithographic tables and 2 letterpress tables. (Pp. 167-170 of Untersuchungen detached, some plates lightly spotted.) Text uniformly bound in near-contemporary half diced russia, spines gilt in five compartments. Atlas bound in contemporary cloth (rebacked and cornered, original spine laid down). FIRST EDITIONS of each work. Brunet V, 204 (Neue Untersuchungen: requires 8 lithographic views, but it is unclear whether these are in addition to, or incorporated in, the 22 plates of the atlas). (3)