TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, Pierre Étude géologique sur la région de Dalai-Noor. Paris: La Société Géologique de France. 1926.
4to. Original blue paper wrapper; pp. 56, 2 plates, 2 fiolding colour maps; inkstamp of Société Géologique de France to front and first page, spine a little sunned, partially uncut, very good.
First edition. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série, No. 7. Rare. An important account of the geology of this remote lake area of Mongolia. It was on this expedition that Teilhard de Chardin wrote his mystical work Le Milieu Divin, which shows just how multi-facted was the mind of this paleontologist-priest.
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