Sarasin, P. and F. Sarasin
Entwurf einer geographisch-geologischen Beschreibung der Insel Celebes. [WITH] Anhang. Untersuchung einiger Gesteinssuiten gesammelt in Celebes von P. und F. Sarasin, von C. Schmidt.
Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel, 1901. Large 4to (30.1 x 24.2 cm). 383 pp.; one page-sized unnumbered lithographed plate, ten fine photogravures; four topographical and geological tinted lithographed maps (one folded in rear pocket). Original duotone cloth with gilt title on the front board.
Important tectonical and volcanological monographs on Celebes - now Sulawesi - in Indonesia. Not only issued as "stand alone" work under the above title, but also as the authors's Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. Vierter Band, with title pages for both. Provenance: with the small stamp of the library of the Dutch geologist Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff (1860-1942) on the front free endpaper recto, and stamps of the Mijnbouwkundige Bibliotheek of the Technische Hogeschool in Delft in the margins of both title pages. Light shelf-wear, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH) p. 1805.

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