Die Entstehung der Kontinente (original journal articles in volume). Petermann's Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes Geographischer Anstalt, 1912 I. This item is unavailable.Die Entstehung der Kontinente (original journal articles in volume). Petermann's Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes Geographischer Anstalt, 1912 I

First edition in the journal "Petermanns Mitteilungen", first half of 1912. In the publisher's full cloth binding, folding maps and plates bound in at rear. Somewhat browned as usual, last pages slightly bent at edges due to the thick and smaller layer of maps. "Wegener is remembered today as the originator and one of the chief proponents of the theory of continental drift, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east sides of the Atlantic, and supported with extensive research on the geological and paleontological correspondences between the two sides. [.] Wegener's first publication on continental drift appeared in three issues of Petermanns Mitteilung in April-June 1912; however, Wegener's theory attracted little interest until 1919, when he published the second edition of his treatise Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane. Between 1919 and 1928 continental drift was "the focus of much controversy and debate, but the theory afterwards fell into obscurity, not to be revived until the discovery of new paleomagnetic evidence in the 1950s" (Norman). Rare.…