The primaeval world of Switzerland. With 500 illustrations. By Professor Heer of the University of Zurich. Edited by James Heywood, M.A., F.R.S.

London, Longmans, Green, 1876. In two volumes. 8vo. 71 pp. [xvi, 393; viii, 324] one folding coloured geological map, 11 engraved plates, eight tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards, 368 text engravings. Original uniform cloth with large gilt vignette on the front boards, and gilt title on the spines. = A very good translation of this classic work by the Swiss geologist, entomologist, and botanist Oswald Heer (1809-1883) on Swiss geology and palaeontology. He wrote on both fossil and Recent entomology, and botany of Switzerland and the polar regions. His interest in fossil beetles and plants is shown on many of the plates in volume I. "Die Urwelt der Schweiz" was first published in 1865, and as "Le monde primitif de la Suisse" in 1872. The neatly bound English edition includes the fine, coloured geological map of Switserland, and an eight pp. appendix, not present in the Swiss editions, titled "Traces of Man in the interglacial deposit near Wetzikon, in the Canton of Zurich, Switserland", written by L. Rütimeyer. A 44 pages catalogue of Longmans, Green, in the rear of volume II. Ex library copy, with bookplates on pastedowns, small stamps on title pages, map verso, and a few text page margins. Spine cover of volume one split at front joint with part of the spine cover missing, otherwise good, yet no more than a working copy. Nissen ZBI, 6600 (German edition).