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8vo blue cloth, gilt titles to cover and spine still bright. very slight Shelfwear ow VG/ndj:172pp, 149 illus., maps und Figuren im Text; Hettner was a "German geographer who sought to place geography on a firm philosophical and scientific foundation. He strongly influenced the modern development of geography in Germany. While completing work on his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, Hettner's conception of the nature of geography was rooted in the views of Immanuel Kant: geography was fundamentally chorology, or the study of geographic distributions over the Earth surface, concerned with human interconnection and interaction with the natural environment, but it should also take into account the arrangement, by area, of the Earth s physical phenomena. The study of local differences in phenomena over the Earth surface was the keynote of this concept. Following researches on Chile and Patagonia, Hettner went to Colombia (1882-84) and published on the Colombian Andes (1888). In 1888 travels in… Read More

Hardbound leather very handsome sm4to [Grand et fort in-8], 3/4 black Leather over marbled paper bds. Ex-Library ssrs. miss. de l'emmaculee conception but without the usual treatments. only a pastedown inside fntcvr with various injunctions to gentle usage and "Vive comme Marie, de Dieu, en Dieu et pour Dieu". ow Covers show mild edge wear. Interior pages are clean throughout. Custom Binding solid, Text in French. VG/ndj: x+592pp. One volume edition with various plates illus the life of this famous missionary saint to the orient. This is NOT the two volume edn of the same title by BOUHOURS, Dominique, 1810. Paris

1stedn; 8vo quarter leather over marbled paper. 4 raised bands; Cover moderately rubbed and toned. Spine sunned, Interior pages are clean throughout. Binding solid; Ex-Fathers Los Gatos Library with the usual treatments. Text in French ow VG/ndj: 177pp