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Modern cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In German. 183 p., 3 folding maps (color and b/w). Kleinasien. Asia Minor. Geheimrat Alfred Philippson, an honorary member of the Geological Society of Turkey, was born in Bonn on January 1, 1864, and he studied in Bonn, Munich and Leipzig. Following his doctoral dissertation on Studien über Wasserscheiden, he made his first examination trip to the area he was to be occupying throughout his life and gave the name 'Aegaeis' and wrote his work entitled "Der Peleponnes" (Berlin 1891-92), Philippson became associate professor at Bonn University in 1892 and professor at 1899. In the meantime, he himself took care of his studies in Greek, then passed to the Aegean islands and to Anatolia in 1900. Through his financial help of 'Preussische Akademie zu Berlin' he continued his studies here from 1901 to 1904 and the result of which is 'Reisen und Forschungen im westlichen Kleinasien' under the name 'Ergaenzungshefte zu Petermanns Mitteilungen' (No. 167, 1910, 172, 1911, 177, 1913, 180, 1914, 183, 148 1015). These are also printed separately. (Gotha 1913, 1914). This. Topographical and geological maps in the works, (1: 300.000 scale sheet), these are geological and geological a tremendous innovation for western Anatolia in terms of morphology and it also constitutes the basis for further work. In 1904, Philippson as Ord. Professor to Bern, and then went from there to Halley in 1906, and finally in 1911, he undertook it in his own town Bonn. In the meantime, he went to Russia and published a map of this country and later on he wrote "Das türkische Reich, eine geographische Übersicht" (Orient - Bücherei 12, Weimar 1915) and "Steinmann - Wilkens, Handbuch der regionalen Geologie, Heidelberg 1918" Kleinasien "section, following the Cihan harbin, Philippson published some maps of Western Anatolia, such as herbal morphology, etc. (Petermanns miit 1919-1921), and then gave himself to studies in Italy.