KELLER, FERDINAND - THE "APPEARANCE" OF PFAHLBAUTEN (THE STAKE BUILDINGS) IN SWITZERLAND.

Die keltischen Pfahlbauten in den Schweizerseen. (Erster-) Achter Bericht.

Zürich, Meyer und Zeller, (1854-) 1879. 4to. Contemporary halfcalf. Gilt spine, gilt letterinf. Fronthinge weakening. 1. Bericht (title without year): pp. (66-) 100 - 2.: pp. (110-) 155 - 3.: X,(73-) 116 - 4.: 34,(2) pp. - 5.: (4),(131-) 188 pp. - 6.: VIII,(245-) 320 pp. - 7.: (2),(4),69,(2),XII,(2) pp. - 8.: VIII,58 pp. and 85 lithographed plates, each with numerous illustr., 2 views (complete). Siebenter berich has 2 titlepages, the first: "Résultat des Recherches exécutées dans les Lacs de la Suisse Occidentale depuis l'année 1866 decrit par V. Gross, F.-A. Forel et Edm. de Fellenberg". The second: "Pfahlbauten. Siebenter Bericht. Von Ferdinand Keller". A few minor brownspots, internally clean.

The work was published in "Mittheilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich", Bde IX,,XII,,XIII,,XIV,.XV,,XIX, a. XX.
The work has successively belong to three well-known Danish archaeologist: Georg Sarauw, Axel Steensberg and J. Troels-Smith with their names on front free endpaper.
Troels-Smith is internatonally known as one of the pioneers in Pollen Analysis, especially with his work "Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zu einigen Schweizerischen Pfahlbauproblemen" founded on his excavations on the "Pfahlbauten".

First edition of this pioneer work in Swiss archaeology, exposing in a long series of reports his finds in the Swiss lakes (the Swiss lake Dwellings), - describing the Swiss "Urbevölkerung" with their Stake Buildings and the rich finds around these in the Swiss lakes.

Order-nr.: 48328