RÜTIMEYER, Karl Ludwig (1825-1895).: — Über das schweizerische Nummulitenterrain, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gebirges zwischen dem Thunersee und der Emme.

Bern: Stämpfli, 1850. 4to, 27.5cm. Pp. [ii],120, 85 figs. of small fossils on 3 lithographed plates, 1 folding partly hand-coloured geological map (26x33 cm), 1 folding lithographed plate of 2 sections and 1 fine large view, all coloured partly by hand. Paperbound in plain new interim wrappers, uncut. Little foxing to first and last text page and to margin of fossil plates, otherwise clean and very good. - Rütimeyer's rare doctoral dissertation (although not called as such here) on the Swiss Tertiary, with special reference to the interesting mountain area north of the Lake of Thun. It was also published in volume 11 of the Denkschriften der allgemeinen schweizerischen Gesellschaft der Naturwissenschanften. - Zittel p. 538. Dict. Sci. Biogr XII, p. 38.