Collini, Cosimo Alessandro | On the origins of volcanic mountain ranges

Collini, Cosimo Alessandro

Considérations sur les Montagnes Volcaniques. Mannheim: C.F. Schwan and M. Fontaine, 1781

Large 4to (253 x 200 mm). With one engraved folding plate and one type-printed folding table; a few minor spots, pale stains, and faintly toned leaves, short marginal tear to leaf C4, small pencil annotation to tile, altogether a rather clean and bright copy. Contemporary mottled half-sheep, marbled paper boards, spine with a gilt geometric design, the upper board with a gilt-lettered red-painted-paper label, all edges stained green; general light wear to the extremities, one corner bumped, superficial cracking to leather along the joints, a tiny loss to the leather near the foot of the spine.

Collini was Voltaire’s secretary in Berlin for two years, and later became the director of the mineral cabinet at Mannheim. He wrote extensively on natural history, including this short study on the origins of volcanic mountain ranges.

REFERENCES

Poggendorff, I, 465; Adams, The Birth and Development of Geological Sciences, p. 398