Roemer, F. A. — Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges.

Hannover, Hahn, 1843. 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm). xx, 40 pp.; 12 lithographed plates. Contemporary marbled boards with original printed wrappers bound in. = Early description of the fossils of the Harz-mountains in Germany by Friedrich Adolph Roemer (1809-1869), and most probably rarer than the author's Versteinerungen des norddeutschen Kreidegebirges which is described on the rear wrapper recto, together with another Roemer publication published by Hahn. On the front wrapper verso, Roemer laments that the age of the Harzer Grauwackengebirges is still partly unresolved and he urges local naturalists to collect more fossils. Most fossils are molluscs, with the bivalves, gastropods, and ammonites about equally well-represented. Other fossils are brachiopods (common), Bryozoa, etc. Copy with wide margins. Spine cover partly abraded. Old library stamp in the top margin of the front wrapper, plates foxed in the margins, only the last plate spotted throughout, wrappers and text leaves, however, clean. In all still a very good copy. Rare. Nissen ZBI, 3459.