Berlin, G. Reimer, 1832. 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm). xiv, 488 pp.; four engraved maps of which one coloured) (34 x 110 cm). Later mock leather. Spine with black label with gilt title. Edges orange.

This work, dedicated to Alexander von Humboldt, contains the first geological map of Brazil. It was written by the German geologist Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), who stayed in Brazil from 1810 to 1821. Zittel: "Ueber Brasilien entwarf Von Eschwege das erste, allerdings noch recht unvollkommene geologische Gemälde...". Three maps are geological maps and profiles; the hand-coloured map is a petrographic map dated 1831, with 16 different colours. Apart from the plain, functional, later binding, a very good and fresh copy. Barbo de Moraes I, p. 293-294; Iglesias p. 84 (14); Sabin, 22829; Zittel, Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie, p. 552. Not in Ward and Carozzi.