GEOLOGY. – Richard OWEN. Palaeontology or a Systematic Summary of

GEOLOGY. – Richard OWEN. Palaeontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860. First edition, 8vo (216 x 137mm.) Half-title, folding plate, illustrations in the text, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear. (Browning, some damp-staining to first and last leaves.) Later burnt red full morocco (endpapers and blanks replaced). – And a further six related volumes (including Roderick Impey Murchison’s ‘Siluria, a History of the Oldest Rocks in the British Isles and Other Countries’, fourth edition, 1867, 8vo, and Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Views of Nature’, 1850, 8vo) (7).

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