Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836.. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 37, Erstes Stück. Pp. 1-240. Entire issue offered. Von Buch's paper: pp. 169-190 a. 1 engraved plate. (Showing Strabo's Vesuv and Plinius's).
First printing of an importent paper on volcanoes, the science of which was von Buch's preferred in geology. He began as a Wernian, but gradually passed into the ranks of the Vulcanists.