Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1844. Oblong folio (29.8 x 35.5 cm), [4], 60 pp.; 18 mostly hand-coloured engraved maps and plates. Text pages bordered with putti and goddesses. 19th century iridescent blue blind cloth.

Wilhelm Fuchs (1802-1853) was the Königliche-Kaizerliche Bergverwalter zu Agordo im Venetianischen, and as such he dedicated this magnificent work to Stephan Franz Victor von Oesterreich, Prinzen von Ungarn und Boehmen, etc. The work contains the detailed map, scale 1:72000, as well as views and cross-sections of this massif. The text deals with the region's geology, geomorphology and vegetation, and with measuring heights. Franz Hauer later published on the fossils collected by Fuchs (in the Denkschriften of the K. Akademie in Vienna). A very good copy of this rare work. BM(NH) Cat. p. 630. Neither in Ward and Carozzi, nor in Henze.