D'ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines (1802-1857), French naturalist, - Lot 282

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D'ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines (1802-1857), French naturalist, - Lot 282
D'ORBIGNY, Alcide Dessalines (1802-1857), French naturalist, explorer, malacologist and paleontologist, famous for his exploration trip through South America, during more than seven years. He wrote an important work from this trip: Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (1834-1847). Manuscript with autograph additions and corrections, on the dredging of gold-bearing sands in South America. S.d. [ca. 1845, according to an early note]. 36 pp. in-folio. Various chapters, entitled "Exploitation of the river bed left dry by the cuts; Of the hand dredge; Of the court of the great rivers, outside the cuts; Of the exploitation of the river bed; Points of the rivers where dredge boats can be established; Expense of establishing bottom dredges; Dredge boats moved by the current; Of the downstream regions, in the natural dams of the rivers; etc. In the middle of the gold rush in America, Alcide d'Orbigny was the representative of several owners of gold mines and companies and intervened on various occasions in the formation of companies for the exploitation of these gold lands and mines, notably in the province of Carabaya, in Peru.
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