Mézières, Trecourt, 1842. 8vo (21.0 x 13.0 cm). xlv, 554 pp.; five lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with blind-stamped and gilt ornamental borders. Marbled endpapers.

An important contribution to the geology and palaeontology of the Ardennes region in north-eastern France, bordering Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany. The French geologist and metallurgist François-Clément Sauvage (1814-1872) was responsible for the geological part, while the French geologist and palaeontologist Nicolas-Armand Buvignier (1808-1880) dealt with the Mesozoic molluscs, mainly bivalves and gastropods. Several species are described as new. Buvignier wrote several works on fossil molluscs and has the palaeontologically significant snail genus Buvignieria named after him. Inscribed, in an old hand, on the half-title verso; the name Lepellier gilted in the spine foot, and on the first blank recto the stamp of the French mineralogist and professor at the École des Mines, Claude Jean Guy Guillemin (1923-1994), and his mineralogical bookplate on the front pastedown. A very good copy. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1813. Neither in Nissen, ZBI, nor in Ward and Carozzi.