MARGERIE (Emmanuel de) - Lot 246

MARGERIE (Emmanuel de) Criticism and Geology. Contribution à l'Histoire des Sciences de la Terre (1882-1942). Tome III. Paris, Colin, 1946. Fort in-4: 2f. pp. XLV to LVIII, pp. 1157 to 1714; numerous illustrations and photographic portrait. ½ marbled fawn basane, gilt title on spine, publisher's cover preserved. "This is the third volume of my Memoirs, with which the Regional or Descriptive Part of this publication opens. It contains only one chapter, the seventh, entitled Études Pyrénéennes". It includes articles published in various journals and as offprints, as well as previously unpublished works such as "Notes bibliographiques sur quelques ouvrages relatifs aux Pyrénées" (pp. 1486-1714), and portraits of great Pyreneanists: Schrader, but also Béraldi, Wallon, Gourdon, Saint-Saud, Russell, Sorre, Leymerie, Prudent, etc. An excellent, highly Pyrenean and scientific work.