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| | Geology, Geological Books, Rare & Out-of-Print Books |
 | | London, John Murray, 1836, First edition, 8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; xi, 663 pp, 16 fine steel-engraved plates including the frontis, folding map, wood-engraved text illus, tables, list of subscribers to the expedition, contemporary full gilt-decorated red morocco, rebacked preserving most of the orig spine, covers worn at corners, rubbed, a. |
 | | London, John Murray, 1849, First edition, 8vo [20.5 x 113.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xii, 368; xii, 385 pp, with the half-titles in each volume, index, orig brown cloth, rebacked preserving the original publisher's ads on endpapers, with part of orig cloth on spine with gilt title lettering, very good, clean and sound. |
 | | Clark III, 352: 'Lyell's description of the coastal islands of the southeastern coast, erosion, topography, and fossils in Georgia and Alabama are an important contribution, while his detailed observations of the Mississippi Valley from the delta to the mouth of the Ohio River equal or excels the accounts of other travelers'. |
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