Le Dolomiti. Geologia dei monti tra Isarco e Piave. Volumes I-II, and maps. [Complete].

Trento, Consiglio nazionale delle Richerche e della Giunta Provinciale di Trento, 1967. Three volumes in three. 4to (28.0 x 20.5 cm). 1,024 pp.; 419 illustrations (full colour and black and whito photos, line drawings, maps and cross-sections, 62 large folded plates including full colour cross sections, photographic panoramas, etc., and 12 large folded maps (numbered LXIII-LXXIV) in slipcase. Uniform red leatherette with gilt title on the spines. The two books with pictorial (full colour photos) dust jackets, the slipcase with full colour photo mounted. = A fine, massive, richly illustrated geological and geographical description of the Dolomites, a mountain range in the southern, Italian part of the Alps. Included are sections on the mineralogy, palaeontology (Permian to Cretaceous, mainly marine faunas including the famous St. Cassian faunas), stratigraphy, and tectonics; all well-illustrated and with many tables and references. The work was written and edited by the member of the Accademia dei Lincei, geologist, and "Dolomitologist" Piero Leonardi (1908-1998), with the assistance of many specialists in the fields of geology, palaeontology, archaeology, etc. Text in Italian, with summaries in English at the end of each chapter. Previous owner's small, thin pencilled name on front free endpapers, small bump to the corner of a few text leaves, and to the slipcase, otherwise a fine set.