Carte Géologique de la Suisse

Vibrant and richly-detailed folding geological map of Switzerland. The map's colouring, explained by a legend in the upper-left corner, divides the country's geology into almost 50 different mineral types. The surveys for this map were conducted by Bernhard Struder, an early and prominent Swiss geologist who established the School of Geology at the University of Bern and organized the Swiss Geological Survey.



Studer's first geological maps of Switzerland were published, with the assistance of Arnold Escher von der Linth, in sections starting around 1853. The complete map was even larger than our example, which was updated and published at this size by Isidor Bachmann around 1869. This is an example of the second edition of Bachman's reduced map with further updates based on the most recent scientific discoveries.



Printed colour. [SL] [SWAS1504]