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183 Hauy (Rene-Just). Traité de minéralogie … Publié par le Conseil des mines, 5 volumes (including volume of plates), Paris: Louis, libraire, imprimerie de Delance, 1801, verso of half-title to volume 1 with publisher’s signature to licence, plate volume containing 86 engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half sheep, joints split and some spines torn with loss, plate volume lacking spine, worn, 4to and oblong 4to (5)
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186 Martin (William). Petrificata Derbiensia; Or, Figures and Descriptions of Petrifactions Collected in Derbyshire, 1st edition, volume I [all published], Wigan, 1809, half-title, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates (many heightened with gum arabic), occasional spotting, edges untrimmed, 20th century green half morocco, spine faded to blue, 4to Nissen ZBI 2751; Upcott I, 143. (1)
184 Leigh (Charles). The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, Oxford: Printed for the Author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, double-page engraved map of Lancashire, Cheshire & Derbyshire by Herman Moll, with contemporary outline hand colouring, 24 engraved plates, some dampstaining to inner margins of initial leaves, endpapers replaced, armorial bookplate of George Booth Tyndale to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled sheep, old reback with gilt decorated spine (worn and lacking title label), upper joint split, board edges and corners worn, folio
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185 Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology: being an inquiry how far the former changes of the Earth’s surface are referable to causes now in operation, 4 volumes, 4th edition, 1835, 15 engraved plates & maps (11 folding, 4 hand-coloured), armorial bookplate of William Backwell Tyringham to upper pastedown, contemporary navy diced calf, gilt decorated spines with red morocco title labels, joints and extremities rubbed, 12mo, together with Cuvier (Georges), Discours sur les revolutions du globe, avec des notes et un appendice, d’apres les travaux recents de MM. Humboldt, Flourens, Lyell, Lindley, etc., Paris: Firmin Didot, 1851, 4 folding engraved plates and 2 two folding tables, contemporary black calf, gilt decorated spine, 12mo, plus an incomplete Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, 2 volumes, 4th edition, 1849, volume 2 lacking title and upper board to half calf binding
187 Phillips (John). Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871, 17 engraved plates (including 4 hand-coloured engraved maps, sectional diagram plates etc.), wood engraved illustrations, few marks, original cloth, 8vo, together with Kendall (Percy Fry, Wroot, Herbert E.), Geology of Yorkshire. An illustration of the evolution of Northern England, 2 volumes, Printed for the authors, 1924, monochrome plates and folding plans, browning to text leaves throughout, tipped-in autograph letter signed from the author Percy Kendall to front pastedown of volume 1, original cloth, 8vo, plus Teall (J.J. Harris), British Petrography: with special reference to igneous rocks, 1888, ownership signatures to title, numerous lithograph plates including some colour, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth, frayed at head & foot of spine, covers scuffed, large 8vo, and Haug (Emile), Traire de Geologie, 2 volumes in 4, 3rd edition, Paris, 1921, folding plans, monochrome plates, illustrations, text leaves browned, navy morocco award bookplate to front pastedown of first volume ‘University of Cambridge Wiltshire Prize 1923 awarded to F.C. Phillips, Corpus Christi College’, original cloth, 8vo, and Buckland (William), Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 volumes, new edition, 1858, engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous plates (some folding, including folding hand-coloured plate of strata), scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, one title label lacking, rubbed, 8vo, plus other geology reference and related, including The County Geognosy and Mineralogy of Scotland by M. Foster Heddle, [volume 1, part only], Truro, 1878, front free endpaper inscribed by the author, contemporary calf, 8vo
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