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Whittaker & Co, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. No Edition Stated. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. From the Whittaker's Arts, Sciences and Industries series. Includes illustrations throughout. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting, however text block remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and pastedown. Newspaper clipping tipped to front endpaper. Text block edges heavily tanned. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is noticeably sunned. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Price sticker to front. Book has a slight forward lean.
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom: The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain Volume I The Gault and Upper Greensand of England by A J Jukes-Browne - 1900
by A J Jukes-Browne
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom: The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain Volume I The Gault and Upper Greensand of England
by A J Jukes-Browne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
London: HMSO, 1900. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 959 4to. Co-author William Hill. Folding map (showing extent of the Gault and Upper Greensand) bound in facing title page, another (Geological Map of the neighbourhood of Warminster) bound in at p 248, three other plates- all as and where called for, as well as many full-page illustrations of fossils. Original green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif of Geological Survey of the United Kingdom to front board, blind-stamped decoration, 499 pages. Condition notes: Maps clean and bright, although with tear to first, about 6cm, close to fold of map, from edge of map inwards. Age-toning to pages, except for title page, which has been protected by the map but shows age-darkening to its margins. Externally: boards bumped, soiled and rubbed, small area of damage to cloth of spine strip with area of loss of cloth for about 1 cm by .5 cm at its widest. More photographs if requested.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (GB)
- Format/Binding Hardback
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher HMSO
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1900
- Keywords geology, Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Geological Survey of Great Britain
- Size 959 4to